Hello, * On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:15:05PM +1200 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I have a few makefiles which are written to run with the cmd.exe command > interpreter, which won't work with cygwin's make (which uses /bin/sh). > > Setting export SHELL=cmd.exe > calls cmd.exe alright, but then sits there forever waiting for input.
Just a wild guess, as I have not tested this: Have you tried cmd.exe with the /c switch? If cmd.exe is called without that switch, it expects input from the standard input (console). HTH, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/