Re: [Mingw-users] make and 4nt

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Greg Chicares <chi...@co...>:

> On 2006-6-13 1:24 UTC, Bill McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> I have been struggling to get make to use 4nt as its shell -
>> with no success.
>>
>> Even though COMSPEC is properly set to c:\util\4nt\4nt.exe
>> when make is invoked (and there is no sh.exe on my
>> computer), make shells to Window's cmd.exe.
>>
>> When I look at what is set, SHELL is set to sh.exe and
>> COMSPEC is properly set.  I've tried setting SHELL to empty
>> and to the 4nt executable without success.
>
> Have you tried copying '4nt.exe' to 'sh.exe'?
>

This is really *bad* advice.  I was going to ask Bill which make he was 
using.  The MSYS make probably won't like SHELL as 4nt.

> The make manual mentions a MAKESHELL variable that you can
> set. It's documented as making a difference only for msdos,
> but I don't know how that condition is tested, so maybe it
> includes 4nt.
>

I don't think it is used for Windows.

> Here's a mailing list that might be helpful:
>  http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
>

And they would tell you to ``make SHELL=4nt'' or set the SHELL in the 
Makefile itself.

Earnie Boyd

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