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: <006d01c110c5$db494b60$6401a8c0@athlon> Reply-To: "Erwin Kalvelagen" From: "Erwin Kalvelagen" To: References: <003b01c110b5$5df5cf40$6401a8c0@athlon> Subject: Re: gmake MAKE_MODE problem Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:44:10 -0400 Organization: GAMS Development Corp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Pfff, found it: had to unset a number of environment variables that were sneakily set by gmake: set TERM= set SHELL= set MAKEFLAGS= set MFLAGS= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erwin Kalvelagen" To: Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:46 PM Subject: gmake MAKE_MODE problem > > > Hi: > > I have a problem with gmake related to the MAKE_MODE environment variable. > We have a large gmake system that is using and relies on MAKE_MODE=UNIX. > A new subsystem calls gmake from this but it wants MAKE_MODE=DOS so > that no backslashes are lost. Basically what we do is: > > Makefile: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > # assume this makefile is called with MAKE_MODE=unix > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > all: > echo $(MAKE_MODE) > ./batch.bat > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Batch.bat: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > set MAKE_MODE=dos > gmake -f Makefile2 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Makefile2: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > all: > command.com /c echo $(MAKE_MODE) > command.com /c echo c:\windows > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The output of running gmake shows: > > > F:\visbuild\problem>gmake > echo unix > unix > ./batch.bat > > F:\visbuild\problem> > F:\visbuild\problem>set MAKE_MODE=dos > > F:\visbuild\problem>gmake -f Makefile2 > command.com /c echo dos > dos > command.com /c echo c:\windows > c:windows <-------------------- !!!!!!!!!!! > > F:\visbuild\problem> > > > I.e. although MAKE_MODE is set to DOS the second invocation of gmake > does not treat a backslash properly. > > > Interestingly if I call BATCH.BAT directly from the command line I get: > > F:\visbuild\problem>batch > F:\visbuild\problem>set MAKE_MODE=dos > > F:\visbuild\problem>gmake -f Makefile2 > command.com /c echo dos > dos > command.com /c echo c:\windows > c:\windows <-------------------- !!!!!!!!!!! > > F:\visbuild\problem> > > > Is there another environment variable that the second invocation inherits > from the first that needs to be reset to make sure that a \ is not considered > as an escape character? > > > Thanks, Erwin > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/