Re: Shell invocation flags

[Dan Oelke]

> I have make 3.80 from a recent cygwin update.  I am attempting to 
> create a Visual Studio project that will invoke this make and from 
> there on I can update a (reasonable) makefile instead of a Visual 
> Studio project.
> My problem is that when I invoke make from a bash shell everything is 
> ok.  When it's invoked from inside the bowels of Visual Studio I get 
> an error:
>    ./Components/CygwinTools/Utils/bash: /c: No such file or directory
>
> My makefile has SHELL defined as:
>    SHELL := ../Components/CygwinTools/Utils/bash

To follow up and answer my own question (and preserve this for future 
Google searches). I found 2 different solutions. 

The first was to use sh instead of bash as the shell.  I would have 
initially and never had this problem, but something with my latest 
cygwin install removed sh.exe.  Re-installing ash from the cygwin tool 
fixed that and then I copied over sh.exe and started using it.

The second solution was suggested by Dave Hylands (Thanks Dave!!) - that 
is to set the environment variable MAKE_MODE=unix as documented in the 
fine cygwin documentation. 

Thanks,
Dan