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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:47:22 -0800
From: Eric Christopher <echristo AT cygnus DOT com>
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To: Steven Schram <sschram AT aircell DOT com>
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Subject: Re: MAKE_MODE=UNIX? was RE: why must cygwin be first in path?
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MAKE_MODE = unix is the default that is shipped with the installer.  It
is thought that in most (all up to now that I've seen) cases people are
using cygwin to get a unixy environment.

-eric

> 
> It looks like Earnie gets the award for asking important but obvious
> questions that I somehow didn't ask myself.  The magic environment variable
> seems to be MAKE_MODE, which needs to be set to UNIX.   This seems pretty
> obvious at first, but then I ask: Why should MAKE_MODE be UNIX when my PATH
> is in DOS format?
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 10:17 AM
> To: Steven Schram
> Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: RE: why must cygwin be first in path?
> 
> --- Steven Schram <sschram AT aircell DOT com> wrote:
> > Basically as a porting layer so I can use GNU software.  Why do you ask?
> >
> 
> I was trying to determine if you were using Cygwin for it's intended purpose
> (adding a POSIX layer on top of Win32) or if you were just using it for the
> User Interface portion.  If you don't need the POSIX layer I was going to
> suggest that you look at Mingw and the links at
> http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32.
> 
> > I tested "sh -c make -f makefile.mk" and it does the same thing as before.
> > I see the same results when executing from a bash shell started from a cmd
> > shell.  If I execute bash from cygnus.bat pointed to by a shortcut, I
> don't
> > get the delay.
> >
> 
> Hmm.  Interesting.  Are the environment variables that are set by the
> cygnus.bat file, already existing in your Win32 environment?
> 
> > If I really want to chase this down, it looks like I will need to dive
> into
> > Make with gdb.
> >
> 
> Possibly, but that would lead you to debugging Cygwin as well.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> =====
> Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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> <http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>
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