Re: weird interaction between make and tcsh

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Edward Peschko <address@hidden> writes:

  ep> I'm having this weird interaction between csh and make - when I
  ep> use ``, as in:

You're wrong about the causes.

  ep> CC=`which gcc`

The "which" command is almost always implemented as a csh script.  So,
when you run "which" you start a C shell to run the script.

GNU make would never invoke csh itself.  It always runs /bin/sh (unless
you change the SHELL make variable of course).

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