Re: Savannah W32 patches... are any OK?

[Earnie Boyd]

<quote who="Eli Zaretskii">
>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:11:31 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>    address@hidden
>> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
>>
>> %% "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>   >> Hm.  Maybe the DOS/Windows shell management code in GNU make should
>> be
>>   >> made aware of, and utilize, the COMSPEC variable (say, if SHELL is
>> not
>>   >> set).
>>
>>   ez> Make already does that, see variable.c.
>>
>> So... I'm losing track here... is the answer to the problem as easy as
>> checking SHELL to see if it's command.com vs. cmd.exe?
>
> It's a possibility, but AFAIR cmd.exe from Windows NT is still
> relatively much less smarter than that of W2K or XP.  So I'd prefer
> using a Windows system call.  Could someone of the Windows developers
> please suggest a patch along these lines?
>

A sample howto is found here
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getting_the_system_version.asp

Caution if the line breaks, it is a long URL.

Earnie

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