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

[Earnie Boyd]

Parish wrote:
> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>
> > You might be using the Cygwin port of GNU make?  Note that that version
> > behaves differently than the standard GNU make for Windows.
>
> Yes, he is, but then so am I, and my system works.
>
> BTW, in another thread in this NG, "SHELL variable causing /c: error 
> message on NT", which appears to be a similar problem, the advice to to 
> use the cygwin version of make.


Paul's comment was to lead you back to the Cygwin list for support.  If 
Cygwin has a version of source that doesn't match the official source 
then how can this list help since this list doesn't know those changes.

However, it's not rocket science.  When --win32 is given then expect to 
use the COMSPEC shell syntax, the command line switch overrides the 
MAKE_MODE environment variable and MAKEFLAGS just passes to children 
make processes in the command argv.  So the result will be that the 
parent operates in --unix mode while it's children operate in --win32 
mode.  Make sure to remove the --win32 from the MAKEFLAGS variable.

Earnie.