Make and CYGWIN=TTY

Daniel Bell Daniel.Bell@colorbus.com.au
Thu Jun 8 15:43:00 GMT 2000


This turned out to be caused because /usr/bin was not the first directory in
my path.

Daniel

> I can't duplicate this behavior.  Sorry.
> 
> cgf
> 
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:22:23PM +1000, Daniel Bell wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Using cygwin 1.1.2, I have noticed a difference in output 
> when running make
> >in TTY and non-TTY modes. Consider the following simple makefile:
> >
> >/tmp $ cat Makefile
> >all:
> >        echo '$$MAKE="${MAKE}"'
> >
> >When the CYGWIN environment variable does not include "TTY", 
> the output (as
> >expected) is:
> >
> >/tmp $ make
> >echo '$MAKE="make"'
> >$MAKE="make"
> >
> >When the CYGWIN environment variable includes "TTY", the output is:
> >
> >/tmp $ make
> >echo '$MAKE="make"'
> >$MAKE=\make"
> >
> >Note that the output from the echo command is wrong in this instance.
> >
> >Is this a bug in my setup, or with make/cygwin.dll?

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