Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: make and shell calls To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: "Wendy Vanhonacker" Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:18:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi First, Thanks for your help! Here are some more details. I have make version 3.79.-7 and cygwin 1.3.12-2. I'm running the makefiles from MSDOS. So I added MAKE_MODE=unix and the cygwin/bin directory to the path. When I run my program on cygwin it works. For all cases: export SB_ROOT=d:/sbroot $(SB_ROOT)/bin : mkdir $(SB_ROOT)/bin OR export SB_ROOT=/cygdrive/d/sbroot $(SB_ROOT)/bin : mkdir $(SB_ROOT)/bin OR export SB_ROOT=d:\\sbroot $(SB_ROOT)\\bin : mkdir $(SB_ROOT)\\bin But the problems comes when I use MSDOS. If I type 'sh' in DOS, and then mkdir d:\sbroot\bin, it doesn't work, it says the usual: $ mkdir d:\sbroot\bin Extended Error 183 1753 [main] sh 922 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my handle<0x38> for pid 1634226260, Win32 error 6 With mkdir d:/sbroot/bin, I get: $ mkdir d:/sbroot/bin Invalid switch - /sbroot 2311 [main] sh 967 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my handle<0x38> for pid 1634226260, Win32 error 6 I don't think it's a cygwin interpretation problem...I tried all the possible cases.. how many // or \\... or cygdrive/d/... When I type sh in DOS I get the shell installed from cygwin (since it's shared by the environment setup that I have), but it doesn't understand the same commands!!!! I think the invalid switch problem is because I use this shell on DOS and it doesn't like it... Can you try that on your windows machine?try 'sh' on MSDOS and then mkdir ... I'm pretty much sure that my shell line is interpreted by sh, so it shouldn't be a make interpretation (like the colon problem as target) The 'coudn't duplicate...' error comes whenever I put a unix command line like mkidr or rmdir or chmod... as a shell line . I don't think it is supposed to do this either.. It has nothing to do with backslashes or anything. If I type 'mkdir temp' it does so too..!! Where does the shell from Cygwin installation come from? Is it Bourne or Korn shell? What package installs sh.exe? thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/