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Re: sh.exe: Command not found


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Mumit has clarified things in this regard.  I'd forgotten that make would
> look for sh.exe in the path.  I don't know why this isn't working for
> you.  Possibly setting the SHELL environment variable or passing a SHELL=
> command line argument will work, as Mumit suggested.

You can pass SHELL as a variable either on the command line as I had
shown, or in the makefile itself, but never taken from the environment. 
Make by design ignores SHELL environment variable, given that it causes 
very weird errors when users have say csh as the SHELL variable.

Mumit



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