Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe

[Parish]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> SHELL == %COMSPEC% because MAKEFLAGS contains --win32.

OK, thanks, I thought it worked the other way round.

What is setting MAKEFLAGS to --win32 though? It's --unix on my system 
and these 2 switches don't appear to be documented in the gmake manual.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Parish

> Earnie.
>
> Parish wrote:
> > I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't get 
> > it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to 
> > cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell.
> >
> > My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run 
> > make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are:
> >
> > # GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> > # Built for i686-pc-cygwin
> > # Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
> > #     Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > # environment
> > COMSPEC = C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
> >
> > # environment
> > PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
> >
> > # makefile
> > SHELL = C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe
> >
> > # makefile
> > MAKEFLAGS =  --win32 -p
> -8<-