Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001017152746.02043e20@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:31:28 -0400 To: "Coco, Richard" , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: question re: make Cc: "Coco, Richard" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:40 PM 10/17/2000, Coco, Richard wrote: >hi - > >i installed the latest freeware cygwin bundle (from the "Install Cygwin Now" >icon at >http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/. it downloaded a setup.ext file which >permitted me to perform an >internet-based installation; which went well). > >I am having difficulty with the 'make' utility. When I run 'make' against my >makefile, I get an error as >follows: > > %make > ..\tools\jikes -classpath ..\tools\javalibs\jdk13-rt.jar. -d >..\classes Foo.java > make: system32cmd.exe: Command not found > >If I run the 'jikes' line above on the commandline, everything works fine. >it looks like make is actually trying to complain about not being able to >find: system32\cmd.exe, but >dropped the backslash char. I tried running 'make' from both a cygwin-bash >window and an >Windows-2000 cmd.exe shell window. The above failure happens in both >contexts. Seems like maybe >it's a PATH issue; tho' modifying PATH didn't seem to help. > >Any advise? > >Tx, > >- rich This isn't a path problem. Its a problem with wherever you're invoking system32\cmd.exe. You need to escape the backslash. You might try setting MAKE_MODE=win32. This is supposed to tell make to handle win32 syntax rather than UNIX syntax. There's allot more about MAKE_MODE in the email archives. You may find things of note for your problem there too. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com