pwd vs $PWD, bash, cygwin vs Linux

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:04:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Of course, you could just put a
> 
> SHELL = /bin/bash
> 
> in the Makefile but then, gasp!, you'd be modifying the makefile and
> shirley you don't intend every person in this space time continuum to do
> that.

I don't see Shirley's message in the archives, and I don't seem to have
received it; what did she say?