Re: [Pipmak-Devel] The Pipmak Make setup for Linux

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Aidan Gauland wrote:
> So if I add the line...
> 
> export SHELL=/bin/bash
> 
> ....to the top of the Makefile, it runs, and actually finishes.
> 
> Since the Makefile for the Pipmak documentation uses some bash specific 
> features (i.e. is not 100% POSIX compliant), should this line be added to the 
> documentation Makefile?

I would suggest that instead the Makefile be changed so that it runs on 
any POSIX shell.

> I think that might be best, so that the EXACT SAME file is packaged with each 
> OS build of Pipmak.  I don't know if there would be any slight differences if 
> there were different people generating Reference.pdf on different systems, but 
> it would probably best to try to avoid that for the official release.

Agreed.

  -Christian