From: jan AT digicash DOT com (Jan Nieuwenhuizen)
Subject: Re: MAKE.EXE: /bin/sh: Command not found
27 Jun 1997 01:14:19 -0700
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Original-To: James Paul Morgan <jpmorgan AT unm DOT edu>
Original-cc: John E Hein <john AT ERA DOT COM>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:42:59 MDT."
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On Thursday, 26 June 1997, James Paul Morgan writes:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, John E Hein wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am running under Windows 95 (command.com... not bash).

Why?
Try bash.  It makes life a lot easier for me.

> If your files are on the network at G:\whatever, then I believe (but am
> not sure) that make will look for G:\bin\sh.exe.

Nope.
Your root (/) is always c:\.

Or do a
        bash -c "cd /; ls"

to find out.

> I run under Win'95 as well, and have not found any way around this.  
> Even if sh.exe is somewhere else on the path, make looks for it in /bin.
  ^^^^^^^
That's grand, isn't it?  We call it something like "basic security stuff".

jan.

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan AT digicash DOT com>
http://www.digicash.com/~jan
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