Re: NT mingw/msys build problem

[Jason Rumney]

Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, when I try doing a "make SHELL=cmd.exe" all I get is make hanging
> indefinately.  If I try to rename the msys /bin/sh.exe and just run
> make then I get a slew of errors about /bin/sh not existing and then
> make exits.

I seem to recall that when I installed msys, it installed its own
version of make and renamed the previous copy as mingw-make. I renamed
it back, since it seems to be more reliable (but still requires the
SHELL=cmd.exe argument).