Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 21:11:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Bug in DJGPP make
To: den AT aisinc DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>Your mention of COMSPEC provided the key, though.  By setting the environment
>var COMSPEC=C:\BIN\SH, I was able to start 'make distclean' from the DOS
>command.com prompt, and the makefile invoked the MKS versions of sh and rm and 
>seems to work OK.

Actually, I never seriously considered changing COMSPEC because I figured
it would break too many other programs.

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