On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/04/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:Makefile doesn't execute.... the "make" command executes. As I
> Thanks for prompt reply. By this I am assuming that a
> Makefile/makefile and its contents are not deemed a mandatory
> executable as opposed to a *.sh? I am unclear as to what is happening
> under the hood as I thought anything that "executes" needs to be "+x"?
mentioned, Makefile is just input to make (a.k.a. /usr/bin/make).
I don't know what you mean by *.sh since the concept of extensions
doesn't exist under Linux. But you may also be interested to know that
"shell" scripts (or files containing shell scripts) need not be executable.
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ ./killfox
firefox-bin: no process found
plugin-container: no process found
But also....
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ chmod -x killfox
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox
-rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox
[egreshko@meimei bin]$ sh ./killfox
firefox-bin: no process found
plugin-container: no process found
HI
What is in killfox??
Marvin
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