Full_Name: Bob Bownes Version: 2.9.2 OS: Solaris 10 Submission from: (NULL) (164.55.254.106) Symptom: Setting R_SHELL=/bin/bash causes make to fail. Reproduce with: bash-3.00# export R_SHELL=/bin/csh;./configure --with-readline=no --with-iconv=no --with-x=no --enable-static=yes --prefix=/home/dev/scratch/bbownes/R bash-3.00# make Badly placed ()'s *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: if test ! -f "./doc/FAQ" || test -f non-tarball ; then \ (cd doc/manual && make front-matter html-non-svn) ; \ touch non-tarball ; \ (cd .; LC_ALL=C TZ=GMT svn info || echo "Revision: unknown") 2> /dev/null \ | sed -n -e '/^Revision/p' -e '/^Last Changed Date/'p \ | cut -d' ' -f1,2,3,4 > SVN-REVISION-tmp ; \ /bin/csh ./tools/move-if-change SVN-REVISION-tmp SVN-REVISION ; \ rm -f SVN-REVISION-tmp ; \ else \ if test "yes" = no ; then \ for f in SVN-REVISION; do \ ./tools/install-sh -c -m 644 ./${f} .; \ done \ fi \ fi make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `svnonly' bash-3.00# Was the intention of R_SHELL to allow you to set a path to your own version of csh?