[bug #40241] CreateProcess failure with unixy paths

[Mike Hommey]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40241>

                 Summary: CreateProcess failure with unixy paths
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: glandium
            Submitted on: Fri 11 Oct 2013 11:54:37 AM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.0
        Operating System: MS Windows
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

When using a MSVC-built make 4.0 with some autoconf/automake-driven projects
with a bash shell, some commands retrieved during configure are set with a
full unixy path, like /usr/bin/install.

In such cases, the command fails in make because CreateProcess fails.

One way to look at it is that if the command line begins with a forward slash,
it's likely to be a unixy path, and it should thus be treated by the shell
instead of CreateProcess. 



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Date: Fri 11 Oct 2013 11:54:37 AM GMT  Name: diff  Size: 558B   By: glandium
Proposed patch
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=29354>

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