Re: Schedule for GNU make 3.81

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Alessandro Vesely">
> Hi!
>
>
> 3. $(shell) doesn't work in win98 under command.com. I investigated it a
> bit and
> found out it is because of the `Path' rather than `PATH' environment
> variable.
> This doesn't happen for build commands, but at that point I ran out of
> spare time
> and stopped. Anybody has some pointers on the `Path' vs. `PATH' question?
>
> As a side effect of that investigation I posted
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3747
> I don't think it's worth the hassle of testing it, unless someone
> has unknown problems with CreateProcess or CreatePipe in W32.
>

Perhaps the easiest solution is to grab the contents of Path, remove Path,
then set PATH with the saved contents on startup.  Windows doesn't care if
it is Path or PATH.  Unfortunately getenv is case sensitive.


Earnie

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