Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:46:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Frank Heckenbach <frank AT tim DOT gerwinski DOT de>
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> > > > Sorry - my mistake.  :-(  It was a trivial problem (a missing
> > > > "export SHELL=g:/djgpp/bin/bash.exe").
> > > 
> > > Where did you need to put this line?  In general, shell scripts
> > > should work correctly without such a setting, provided that you have
> > > sh.exe (a symlink to bash.exe) somewhere on your PATH.
> 
> FWIW, I've set SHELL in autoexec.bat, then running make from
> command.com works, too.

I would still like to understand why did you need to set SHELL at
all.  It shouldn't be required.

> > 'SHELL=$DJDIR/bin/sh.exe make' from bash works. However I'm
> > getting problems later due to Win9X DPMI problems (large number
> > of processes). Therefore I tried this running bash under 
> > DOSEMU-0.99.9 in Linux (kernel-2.2.3, glibc-2.1, etc). Had to increase
> > max number of simultanous DPMI clients for DOSEMU and rebuild it as
> > the default (8) was insufficient.
> 
> Thanks for the hint -- I had the same problem. After increasing the
> number of clients, and increasing DPMI memory to 32 MB, these tests
> now work for me.

Could you please tell the details about how these changes are done on
Linux?  It might be a valuable addition to the next release of the
FAQ.  Thanks.