SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Wed Mar 12 17:19:00 GMT 2003
Parish wrote:
>> I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't
>> get
>> it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to
>> cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell.
Is SHELL set in the Windows environment? (i.e. before bash starts)
>> My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run
>> make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are:
...
>> # makefile
>> MAKEFLAGS = --win32 -p
>> He has sh.exe in /bin (/cygdrive/d/Projects/cygwin/bin). I can
>> reproduce
>> the problem on my system by renaming sh.exe and he assures me that
>> typing ''/bin/sh'' at the bash prompt works.
Get him to run "ls -l /bin/sh" and also "id" and send the output here.
Max.
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