[bug #52912] minor bug in GNU make's own Makefile under .ONESHELL

[Paul D. Smith]

Update of bug #52912 (project make):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

I'm saying that if you hope to be able to force ONESHELL with a non-standard
shell on a wide variety of different makefiles, you're going to have this
problem in spades and fixing all those individual makefiles to allow it is
Quixotic... or Sisyphean, if you prefer :).

I wasn't suggesting you should name your wrapper "bash" or "dash" then stick
it in the PATH somewhere.  You could add it to a test directory (or whatever)
where it wouldn't normally be seen, then just set it directly as SHELL, only
to make.  You can even call the script something else, then create a symlink
named "sh" or "dash" or whatever, and point make's SHELL at that.

I'm not sure about having all prerequisites of .ONESHELL refer to POSIX
shells... I don't see why we'd expect that to be the case.  I think it would
lead to confusion.

I'm going to close this but we can continue to discuss options in the
comments.

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