%% <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
k> POSIX says the line should be processed like system("test")
k> which will be execvp("/bin/sh","-c","test") which will succeed,
k> but GNU make tries to optimize avoiding /bin/sh,
k> which tries execvp("test") and fails.
k> GNU automake uses this bare "test" in several testsuite.
I don't have a problem making this change but I'm curious as to what
kind of command line in a makefile rule would use test(1) but not use
any other special character that would cause make to kick the command to
the slow path?
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