Re: Useful patch for GNUmake on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Greg Chicares <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:08:29 -0400
> 
> With MSYS,
>   $ set |grep -iw shell
>   SHELL=/bin/sh
>   $ ls /bin/sh 
>   /bin/sh

Does this system have several drive letters (C:, D:, E:, etc.)?

Also, are you prepared to fail Makefile's which use COMMAND.COM's
syntax of internal commands, like "ECHO OFF" or "FOR"?

> Is this behavior determined
> at build time, at run time, or a little of both?

It's determined at build time, since each port is built from slightly
different sources (that's what #ifdef's do).