Make doesn't honor .SHELLFLAGS?

[Warlich, Christof]

Hi,

I'd like to have Make to use a shell that executes a specific init file. I 
tried the following, but it doesn't work:

echo "echo -n Hello">xxx && make SHELL=/bin/bash .SHELLFLAGS="--init-file xxx 
-i -c"

The Makefile may be as simple as:

all: ; @echo " World"

but I only see:

$ make
World

while I'd expect:

$ make
Hello World

By the way: This works:

$ echo "echo -n Hello">xxx && /bin/bash --init-file xxx -i -c "echo \" World\""
Hello World

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Chris