Re: (Windows:) cmdproxy non-existent on bootstrapping after make realclean

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:38:19 +0100
> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> 
> > If so, can we override these variables with real environment
> > variables set either by the shell or by Make?
> 
> Yes, you're right!

Good.

> So, you're proposing this fix instead of deleting the registry entries?

Yes.  It seems to me that something like

      export SHELL = ....

in the Makefile is better than the other tricks.  (I hope nmake has a
similar feature.)

> If so, what's a good default to SHELL? %COMSPEC%?

I'd try ComSpec first, and if that's not defined (on Windows 9X), use
COMSPEC.