Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe

[Earnie Boyd]

SHELL == %COMSPEC% because MAKEFLAGS contains --win32.

Earnie.

Parish wrote:
> I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't get 
> it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to 
> cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell.
>
> My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run 
> make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are:
>
> # GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> # Built for i686-pc-cygwin
> # Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
> #     Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> # environment
> COMSPEC = C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
>
> # environment
> PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>
> # makefile
> SHELL = C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe
>
> # makefile
> MAKEFLAGS =  --win32 -p
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