Question

One of the projects I’m working on uses gnu make for testing. I would like to test on a platform that doesn’t have a make implementation, but does have a POSIX shell.

Is it possible to create a script (preferably in python) that can “stitch” a remote shell to make, and put it in make’s SHELL environment variable?

If not, is there another way anyone can think of to do it?

Answer 1

It is possible.

Create a script that forwards commands to a remote host. For example:

#!/bin/bash
shift # remove -c argument
exec ssh remote_host "$@"

And make it executable (chmod +x).

And then in Makefile:

SHELL := './my_shell.sh'
all :
    @echo `hostname` is making $@

Outputs:

$ make
remote_host.peer1.net is making all