Re: Override SHELL

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:58:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gerould S <address@hidden>
> 
> I just compiled GNU Make 3.8 on the PC with the
> microsoft VC7 compilers on WinXP. I'm trying to
> overide the shell that is used by make.
> 
> I've tried various things like listed in the various
> docs like:
> 
> a) set the SHELL enviroment variable to the ksh that I
> want to use
> b) set the COMSPEC enviroment variable to point to my
> ksh
> c) set SHELL in the command line: like 
> gnumake.exe SHELL=/myfiles/ksh.exe -f myMake
> 
> None of these seems to work - did I miss something ?

Does it help to read the file README.W32 in the distribution?  It
discusses several aspects of these issues.