Make 3.81: make check fails in two instances (MacOS 10.4.11)

Hi, I just downloaded the source of make 3.81 from your website as my system came with an older version of make. Building worked fine (see attached log files), but the check wrt default names seems to fail on a Mac (running 10.4.11 "Tiger"), cut out the relevant lines, skipping all tests with "pas

[bug #26888] SHELL as target variable ignored

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #26888 (project make): It's not a bug, strictly speaking: SHELL should only be set to a command that supports a "-c ARGUMENT" invocation. CMD.EXE does not, so you invoke it as "cmd.exe -c SOMETHING" whereas it expects "cmd.exe /c SOMETHING" (and in addition the quoting

[bug #26888] SHELL as target variable ignored

Update of bug #26888 (project make): Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #26891] make enters interactive shell

Update of bug #26891 (project make): Assigned to:None => eliz ___ Follow-up Comment #1: It's not a bug, strictly speaking: SHELL should only be set to a command that supports a "-c ARGUM