Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
[snip]
> A suggestion was to always use `SHELL = /bin/sh' in Makefiles.
> I simply don't know how correct this is, because that's how it
> was in the past before Chris Provenzano changed it to what it is
> now.  The reason for that change seems to have been lost.
> Because Chris had a cygnus email address it could be a cygwin
> singularity?  Maybe it's for systems that do not have /bin/sh?
[snip]

DJGPP's port of GNU make emulates "/bin/sh" when you put a line like 
"SHELL = /bin/sh" in a Makefile. That's because DOS's default shell, 
command.com, lacks some features when compared with most Unix shells 
(e.g.: stderr redirection).

Unfortunately the emulation is not good enough for some stuff (e.g.: 
command substitution), in which case you must use bash instead and put a 
line in like "SHELL = /dev/env/DJDIR/bin/bash.exe".

I doubt auto* would work on DJGPP, unless SHELL is set to DJGPP's bash.

Bye, Rich =]

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