From: bbarr AT intertv DOT com (Brian Barr)
Subject: problem shelling out new processes in Bash B1.8 for NT4.0
5 Sep 1997 20:27:19 -0700
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It seems that when our make files (for gnu make) try to shell out
a new process, the result is a new DOS command interpreter, not a UNIX
style Bash shell.  We noticed the problem when we saw that the 
shelled out processes could not interpret UNIX style path names.

We have tried specifying a shell in our make files with the following
command:

SHELL = $(SHELL_PATH)/sh.exe

but Bash does not allow this assignment.

How can we configure Bash so that it uses sh to shell out new processes?

Thanks,
Brian.
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