Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/03/05/16:14:04
Hello.
Richard Dawe wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Both these messages ("Cannot redirect" and "Ambiguous redirect") are
> > from `system's code. Significantly, they both indicate that `system'
> > is using its internal emulator of COMMAND.COM, which doesn't support
> > "2>" style redirection.
> >
> > In other words, the test suite setup is not taking care of setting
> > $SHELL to point to the Bash executable. It should do that because
> > these commands will never work with anything but a Unixy shell.
> [snip]
> Well, the Makefiles have $SHELL set to /bin/sh, but that does not appear
> to be enough. When I tried with $SHELL set to /bin/sh.exe (which
> exists), I did not have the redirection problems.
Sorry for the duplicate mail, but Tim Van Holder also deserves credit
here, because he pointed out the same thing to me.
Bye, Rich =]
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