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Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: srb@xxxxxxx (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:59:31 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh workers list)
In-reply-to: <199608011444.QAA30597@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Stephen R. van den Berg" at "Aug 1, 96 04:44:51 pm"
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> Fair enough.  The problem in this case transposes itself to "make" then.
> "make" *has* to make that SHELL is set to a Bourne shell compatible
> shell.  If it leaves it at zsh, it's a bug.

For exactly that reason GNU make simply ignores the SHELL environment
variable and sets it to /bin/sh.  I do not know how other makes behave but
they should do the same.

Zoltan

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