Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/04/09:29:02
On Wed, 4 May 2005, John Williams wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > > > In this case, the operative observation is bash != ash. PWD is a
> > > > bash construct. You would be much better off just using the gnu
> > > > make "CURDIR" variable. Changing PWD to CURDIR in your examples
> > > > makes things work as you'd expect.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick response and workaround.
> > >
> > > While what you say might be a true statement, "better off" means
> > > different things to different people!
> >
> > > What surprised me was that the same shell, and same make, resulted
> > > in different behaviour. I guess this is just reflecting differences
> > > in the underlying process architectures of Linux vs Windows.
> >
> > Again, it *isn't* the same shell. You have now learned that it isn't
> > the same shell and you now know that this is the reason for the
> > inconsistency. ash isn't normally used as /bin/sh on linux. A
> > stripped down version of ash is used as /bin/sh for performance
> > purposes on cygwin. ash does not set PWD.
>
> OK - I see the confusion. Make is spawning ash as the subshell, not
> bash. Now everything you said makes sense. Out of interest, can that
> behaviour be modified at the runtime/user/Makefile level?
In addition to what Gary said, you could also try the following (WARNING:
untested), which isn't as drastic:
mount -u -f -b -x "`cygpath -aw /bin/bash.exe`" /bin/sh.exe
mount -u -f -b -x "`cygpath -aw /bin/bash`" /bin/sh
make
umount -u /bin/sh.exe
umount -u /bin/sh
I may have gotten some flags slightly wrong -- "man mount" should help
with that.
HTH,
Igor
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