Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <37384732.91D8E4C5@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:05:22 -0400 From: "Wilson Cheung" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, "Jason Kania" Subject: B20: make fails to execute command Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Within the Makefile.compile, we define the following: all: perl -e "$$path=`path`;print $$path;" When we use GNU make vers 3.75 by Cygwin, we have the following output: D:\nisacompile\code\component_A>d:\public\bin\make -f Makefile.compile perl -e "$path=`path`;print $path;" D:\nisacompile\code\component_A> The command is reached by a valid rule firing, but the command isn't executed. When we execute the perl command line under WinNT 4.0 service pack 3, we have the following output: D:\>perl -e "$$path=`path`;print $$path;" PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\Office;C:\Program Files\Maestro.nt\;C:\NTRESKIT;C:\NTRESKIT\Perl;C:\Program;C:\Program Fi les\InterAccess\Companion;;C:\Program Files\Rational\ClearCase\bin;;c:\orant\bin If we define the Makefile with the following: all: dir /ad It works as expected. Any comments? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com