Makefile doesn't work in a shell under emacs

[ilitzroth]

The makefile contains this line:

EMACS := $(shell echo "$${EMACS:-emacs}")

in an emacs shell buffer EMACS=t.

[gracjan]

The full Makefile fragment goes like this:

EMACS := $(shell echo "$${EMACS:-emacs}")

# Emacs itself sets the $EMACS environment variable to t if it is not
# present, so we should ignore the variable if this is its value.
ifeq ($(EMACS),t)
EMACS := emacs
endif

It seems to me we are doing the correct thing here. Am I wrong?

[bergey]

The Makefile works for me in shell-mode or eshell. It does not work in term-mode, where EMACS=24.5.1 (term:0.96). I don't know that we need to care about this last, I'm just trying to be complete.