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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:28:04 -0400
To: "Earl Mitchell" <earl DOT mitchell AT accetnetwork DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: question my sh commands in makefile works on linux but not
  on cygwin
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At 06:21 PM 6/14/2002, Earl Mitchell wrote:
>Need help with following problem.
>I have very simple makefile with following rule:
>
>test:
>        @echo "this is a test"
>        @if [ "1" = "1" ] ; then \
>                echo "working" ; \
>        fi ;
>
>If I do a make on linux I correctly see ...
>
>this is a test
>working
>
>But in cygwin when I make using same makeifle I see this ...
>
>"this is a test"
>"1" was unexpected at this time.
>make.exe: *** [test] Error 0x1
>
>The MAKE_MODE is set to unix. Does anybody
>know why the make is failing to parse this? I checked
>the newsgroup and manual don't see what is causing
>this to fail. 

I was going to say that it was a bash vs ash issue but it works fine 
here for me using /bin/bash or /bin/sh (ash).  Maybe you want to look
at the results of cygcheck -s -r -v if you haven't already.



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