> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:02:30 -0400 > From: Bill Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 04:48 PM 8/17/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >I don't understand why MinGW's make should be using anything like /bin/sh. > >Shouldn't it be using cmd.exe or command.com? > > > It seems that if it finds sh.exe in the path it uses it.
Yes. This is by design (not mine, long before I started using the Windows port, let alone contributing to it). I'm guessing that the reason was twofold: (1) relative stupidity of Windows shells of yore, and (2) lots of Makefile's out there which depend on a Unixy shell, but don't say "SHELL = /bin/sh" explicitly. Make 3.81 adds a feature whereby you can say "SHELL = cmd.exe" and have it use CMD even if sh.exe is on your PATH. Previous versions of Make didn't allow even that. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
