Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/05/02/06:53:03
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> It looks very strange because according to a post in the Allegro
> mailing list (problems with makefiles for CygWin) looks like Make uses
> command.com if no shell is available, but perhaps that's made by
> code in Make and no automatically by system.
> Anybody knows about it? Eli, you know about make, what's your
> opinion?
The Cygwin version of Make is not yet in the official GNU Make
distribution; DJ told me they have a special internally-maintained
version.
So I don't have any clue about how the Cygwin version solves the shell
schizophrenia.
FWIW, I think that the DJGPP's way of deciding dynamically on what is
the shell and letting the user to make sure `system' gets only
commands that the installed shell can grok, is the best idea.
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