Re: How does make determine which shells to invoke when executing external commands?

[Hua Ai <tommy dot ai at gmail dot com>]

Hi Warren,

Thank you for your reply.

>
> The answer is in the GNU make docs, or in the O'Reilly book if you prefer.
>

Will check it out, I thought this is a cygwin issue since windows
commands were invoked.

>
> That means those computers have a native Windows version of GNU make on
> them, most likely the one from MinGW.  MinGW GNU make is built to use
> cmd.exe to interpret shell commands, not /bin/sh as Cygwin's GNU make does
> by default.

We don't have MinGW, but we do have multiple versions of a software
(development tools from Altera) installed on these computers, which
all contains a copy of cygwin (different versions but all with make).

This makefile however was run from a standalone cygwin.

I will do a little bit more digging tomorrow and come back with my
findings. More suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Hua

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