From: Earnie B. <ear...@ya...> - 2003-01-26 14:59:55
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Mike Capp wrote: > Greg Chicares wrote: > >> Mike Capp wrote: >> >>> [snip] >>> the MSYS shell seems too restrictive with regard to where you put your >>> files, running make from editors and capturing the output, and so on. >> >> >> You can do >> make 2>&1 |less >> make some_target >/tmp/captured-output 2>&1 >> make 2>&1 | tee captured-output >> What do you want instead? > > > As you doubtless guessed, I think my objections largely stemmed from > ignorance here. I'd heard that MSYS was purely an interactive shell, > based on the assumption that you'd always be running 'make' from the > supplied rxvt terminal, and the docs that came with it mostly reinforce > that impression. This would make it pretty useless as an external tool > for an editor. If, as seems to be the case, you can also run the sh.exe > directly or specify it as the system shell inside your makefile, MSYS > gets a *lot* more attractive. > Please help me correct your confusion. At what point does the documentation need improved? Thanks, Earnie. |