On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 1:16 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This part I don't yet understand. Why invoking 'ls' via PowerShell
> works whereas invoking it directly doesn't? You never explained
> that. So I don't think I have a clear enough understanding of what you
> wanted to do and how.
>
Because
On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 12:13 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It's not documented because the details are complex and hard to
> explain, and the result isn't supposed to depend on whether Make
> invokes commands directly or via the shell. So why do you care to
> know which way does make invoke a given
On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 10:46 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> GNU Make avoids calling the shell for commands that don't require any
> shell functionality it knows about. This is how GNU Make works on all
> platforms, and the Windows port doesn't change that. So if you don't
> have ls.exe or ls.bat or
I previously sent this message to Eli Zaretskii, whose [EZWinPorts](
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/) binary I am using. He
asked me to move this conversation here.
I'm trying to choose the shell for my Makefile recipes when I run
EZWinPorts's Windows port of Make 4.3 (without G
