make distprep broken?

Damien Miller
2002-05-09T05:29:52Z

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> 	Doing a make distprep doesn't seem to work anymore:
>
> $ make -f Makefile.in distprep
> make: @SH@: Command not found
> make: *** [catman-do] Error 127
>
> 	I've seen this on AIX & Redhat (gnu make) and Solaris (native
make). I
> suspect this occurs on most platforms. Is this still the recommended way
> of autoreconf'ing CVS releases for building?

hmmm, that is broken. Tim - you committed that change, is there anyway to
default to /bin/sh if @SH@ isn't substituted?

In the meantime, you can do "make -f Makefile.in distprep
SHELL=/bin/sh"

-d