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Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:22:55 GMT
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Ok, I finally solved this problem, with a little help from
"rugxulo".  This gets interesting, and really is on-topic
for this group, even though it doesn't seem so at first;
bear with me.

In response to my query yesterday in which I said make works at
home but not at work, <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> replied:

> (However, why it supposedly works on one Win2k machine and not another
> is weird. Is there a SHELL define in your makefile or default rules?
> Is bash running or your shell defined as bash somehow on one and not
> another?)

Indirectly, that hit the nail on the head.  It got me to thinking that
this was actually a command-processor problem, not a Gnu-Make problem.

So I tried running an AWK script: same problem, can't run commands.

I tried running some older DOS apps, and got even more bizarre
results: "Invalid COMMAND.COM Cannot Load COMMAND System Halted".

So I googled "Invalid COMMAND.COM Cannot Load COMMAND System Halted"
which sent me to this Microsoft knowlege-base artical:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282064
Which explained that systems that have been converted from Win-m.e.
to Win-2K can have a bogus line in the this file:
C:\Windows\System32\autoexec.nt
that sets comspec to "command.com" when it should actually be
"cmd.exe".  When I fixed that, the problem went away.

So when running DJGPP tools on machines that were upgraded from
Win-m.e. to Win-2000, always do this:

1. Erase the "comspec" line from the file
   "C:\Windows\System32\autoexec.nt".  (Some systems will have
   "WINNT" -- or something else -- as the Windows directory.)
2. Fire-up C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\regedt32.exe and edit
   "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager".
3. Delete the "COMSPEC" value.
4. Make a new "COMSPEC" of type REG_EXPAND_SZ, with value
   "%systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe".

OTHERWISE, many DJGPP tools will fail or crash on such machines.
As I found out the hard way.

-- 
Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
lone wolf intj aatt pac bell dott net

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