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I always do in fact do that. SHELL:=/usr/bin/bash or whatever

The problem is that bash isn't there on windows and not even on all Linuxes so if I supply you with a makefile there's no way to be sure you can use it.

If make included a language then I don't need to worry about your dependencies - not even which version of bash you have. This would cause a makefile to be FAR more useful.




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