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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  2 11:48, Alfred von Campe wrote:

>>   dmake:  Error -- \bin\bash: No such file or directory
> 
> Dmake alone is the culprit, given that.
> 
> The problem here is that dmake as native process has simply no idea
> about Cygwin's mount table.  Apparently it checks for a file \bin\bash,
> but where is that supposed to be when using native Win32 calls?  dmake
> would have to know to add Cygwin's Win32 equivalent of the root dir from
> Cygwin's mount table so that the file becomes, say, C:\bin\bash.  And
> even then it wouldn't find the file, except it knows that it has to add
> a ".exe" suffix...

  Is this possibly caused by having $SHELL set in the environment in one case
but not the other?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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