Date:	Tue, 16 May 2000 14:50:09 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Alexey Zakhlestine <alx AT gs707 DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: FW: Make problem
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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alexey Zakhlestine wrote:

> You should use BASH instead of command.com

I doubt that this is true with Allegro.  At least previous versions did 
not need a Unix shell to build the library.

> Make-Scripts are usually SH-compatible, not MS-compatible

This is only true if whoever wrote the Makefile used features supported 
only by a Unix shell.  There's nothing in Makefile syntax that requires a 
Unix shell, and you can certainly write non-trivial Makefile's that will 
run with stock DOS COMMAND.COM.

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