Kid gloves only needed for GCC_COLORS

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/bash/bashrc.d/make.bash b/bash/bashrc.d/make.bash
index 63ffa3f0..397ba944 100644
--- a/bash/bashrc.d/make.bash
+++ b/bash/bashrc.d/make.bash
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-# Unset all my *_COLORS vars when invoking make(1) if terminal doesn't have
-# color; I have to do this because my wrapper functions are ignored by the
-# /bin/sh fork make(1) does
+# Unset my GCC_COLORS vars when invoking make(1) if terminal doesn't have
+# color; I have to do this because my wrapper function is ignored by the
+# /bin/sh fork make(1) does, and gcc(1) always uses colors if the variable is
+# set, as opposed to ls(1) and grep(1) which only do it if the --color option
+# is specified appropriately.
 make() {
     local -i colors
     colors=$( {
@@ -9,10 +11,7 @@ make() {
     if ((colors >= 8)) ; then
         command make "$@"
     else
-        (
-            unset -v GCC_COLORS GREP_COLORS LS_COLORS
-            command make "$@"
-        )
+        ( unset -v GCC_COLORS ; command make "$@" )
     fi
 }