Re: Shell commands in makefile not working (running Windows XP)

[Earnie Boyd]

Make sure that sh.exe isn't in your PATH.  The Win32 version will use it 
regardless if it finds it.

Earnie.

Scott Merz wrote:
> Hello everyone
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> that command should populate srcFiles with a series of space delimited
> filenames (since the description of shell in GNU make says that when using
> shell, all carriage returns and end of line characters are converted to
> spaces). However, subsequent echo calls show that srcFiles remains EMPTY,
> thus the shell call is not working. Another thing, even though there is no
> SHELL environment variable, 'make' sets it to sh.exe. Even if I call make
> with the "-e" argument (which ignores environmental variables) and override
> SHELL=%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe, echoing $(SHELL) still brings up
> sh.exe. This is very confusing, and I have tried everything I can think of,
> and am stuck at the following avenues to place blame:
>
>  
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> 1.      SHELL=sh.exe
> 2.      Windows XP Command Shell
> 3.      MS-DOS in General