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From: "Derek Pomery" <dpomery AT cuc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Eliminate make's search for sh.exe under Cygwin?
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:41:39 -0800
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> Hmm...  I seem to recall that make goes through lots of extra logic when
> WIN32 is defined so perhaps the removal of that definition alone will
> help.  (I haven't looked recently.)  Perhaps you should ask the "cause
> some problem" question internally at sources.redhat?  I can't fathom
> that it would cause problems for the normal "I want UNIX or bust" user.

Yes!  That's me exactly!  I think I will change my shell prompt to:
UnixOrBust!#
Pity I still can't get ntsec logon authentication to work, especially now
that I'm reading that ntsec allows cygwin to do true permissions (although I
thought Corinna's ntsec FAQ said that NT couldn't emulate posix permissions
perfectly).




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