From: simonb AT prl DOT research DOT philips DOT com (Simon Blanchard) Subject: Make can't find command 24 Nov 1996 06:33:29 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <329852B4.58E.cygnus.gnu-win32@prl.research.philips.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX64 6.2 IP19) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I have a Makefile that looks like the one below # # Test makefile # host := $(shell hosttype) all: echo $(PATH) # end makefile When I try to run it I get: "make: hosttype: Command not found" But at the shell prompt I can execute hosttype: bash$ hosttype nt-3.51-i386 bash$ And the PATH that's echoed in the above Makefile shows the directory where hosttype resides. Any thought? thanks simonb - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".