Re: [Mingw-users] mingw32-make return "*** INTERNAL: readdir: Invalid argument" error

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:19:32 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>
> 
> The difference as I've already stated with msys/bin in the PATH or if
> you're within msys/bin directory when executing mingw32-make is that
> it find sh.exe and uses it instead of using COMSPEC.  But also it will
> create temporary .bat files in the TMP and/or TEMP locations if sh.exe
> doesn't exist.

Temporary batch files are used only when the command requires a
shell.  If Make needs to invoke .exe programs directly (without
redirections), it will call CreateProcess without going through the
batch files.

And I don't think the batch file issue is related here, because Make
crashes much earlier in its startup phase, when it is looking for the
shell (_looking_ for it, not _using_ it).