Re: Bug in sub_proc.c: what to patch?

[Alessandro Vesely]

"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> 
> %% Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   av> BTW, what about a read-only variable reporting if the shell
>   av> is unixy?
> 
> But that's a runtime determination, not a compile-time
> determination... isn't it?

yes
 
> And if it is, then shouldn't it be done by the makefile, not make?
 
Makefile may know if it is win32 from the drive letter, e.g.

   ifeq "" "$(strip $(patsubst /%,,$(firstword $(CURDIR))))"
    ARCH = unix # unixy shell is implied here
   else
    ARCH = win32
   endif

but I have no idea how to determine the shell flavour.