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From: "Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" <kfleisc1 AT ford DOT com>
To: "'Heinz-Juergen Oertel'" <oe AT port DOT de>,
        "Cygwin (E-mail)"
	 <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 05:52:04 -0400 
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Default for SHELL is sh.exe, this should be the same as /bin/sh.

I just found out something interesting. First look at this makefile:

============
SHELL=/bin/sh
export TIME:=$(shell date)

target:
	@echo $(SHELL) $(TIME)
=============

This prints out "/bin/sh" and the current date and time.

Now look at this one (note the quotes around /bin/sh):

============
SHELL="/bin/sh"
export TIME:=$(shell date)

target:
	@echo $(SHELL) $(TIME)
=============

This one prints nonsense and fails with error 127, at least on my system.
Where is the difference? IMHO both makefiles should do the same.


-----Original Message-----
From: Heinz-Juergen Oertel [mailto:oe AT port DOT de]
Sent: Mittwoch, 2. August 2000 10:40
To: Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
Cc: 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
Subject: Re: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K


"Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" wrote:
> 
> The lowercase $(shell ...) statement is a builtin GNU Make function and
has
> nothing to do with the $(SHELL) variable, expcept that the specified shell
> is used for command execution. My question is: why does command execution
> does not work properly when I specify /bin/sh explicitly?
> 
> Karsten
> 


can you see any difference in the used shell,
e.g. is /bin/sh
the same that is used without specifying SHELL ?



   Heinz

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