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From:	"Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sun, 27 Oct 1996 19:53:35 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Compiling GCC 2.7.2.1 with itself
Message-ID:	<846539844.13831.0@abwillms.demon.co.uk>

On 27 Oct 96 at 15:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Do you have a program named `sh.exe' somewhere on your PATH? 

Yes!

> And if so, 
> does the Makefile you use say "SHELL=/bin/sh"? 

YES!

> If the answer to both 
> these questions is `yes', then the new Make calls that shell for any 
> command that includes shell-specific features like redirection or pipes.

Oh, right.

> Just say "make SHELL=c:/dos/command.com ..." (or wherever your 
> COMMAND.COM resides) and get back the previous behavior.

Hokay. That's fixed now. I made it clean, and reran configur go32, 
then make, and it still complains of line number overflow when 
linking... which sounds like another problem altogether. Any ideas?
 
> All this (and much more) is explained in the file README.dos included in 
> the source distribution; it should have been included in the binary 
> distribution also.  (DJ, can you please include it in the future binary 
> distributions of Make?  Thanks.)  For now, download mak375s.zip and read 
> that file carefully.

Will do!


Thanx,

ABW
--
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