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 Message-ID: <3E6F64BB.2060605@ntlworld.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:47:55 +0000 From: Parish User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030305 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Drash, Jim [NCSUS]" CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh References: <1CA079E0A10FD7119DC20002A544C5BE553BDC AT eesusciexs3 DOT eesus DOT jnj DOT com> In-Reply-To: <1CA079E0A10FD7119DC20002A544C5BE553BDC@eesusciexs3.eesus.jnj.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Drash, Jim [NCSUS] wrote: > did you run a mkpasswd and mkgroup on this person's machine post install? > Not as far as I am aware. I certainly didn't on my system. What effect does/should this have? Regards, Parish > -----Original Message----- > From: Parish [mailto:parish AT ntlworld DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:39 AM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh > > > I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't get > it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to > cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell. > > My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run > make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are: > > # GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. > # Built for i686-pc-cygwin > # Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 > # Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > # environment > COMSPEC = C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe > > # environment > PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH > > # makefile > SHELL = C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe > > # makefile > MAKEFLAGS = --win32 -p > > # environment > PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32: > /cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem: > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN: > /cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm: > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs: > /cygdrive/c/util:/cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > > # environment > MAKE_MODE = unix > > On my system SHELL=/bin/sh and MAKEFLAGS= --unix -p, which is correct. > > The following are in his environment (and matches mine): > > BASH=/bin/bash > BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="8" [4]="release" > [5]="i686-pc-cygwin") > BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(8)-release' > COMSPEC='C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' > HOME=/cygdrive/d/Projects > HOSTTYPE=i686 > MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin > MAKE_MODE=unix > OPTERR=1 > OPTIND=1 > OS=Windows_NT > OSTYPE=cygwin > PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/: > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT: > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/util: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/: > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN: > /cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools: > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm: > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin' > PATHEXT='.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' > PIPESTATUS=([0]="2") > SHELL=/bin/bash > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor > > SHLVL=1 > > He has sh.exe in /bin (/cygdrive/d/Projects/cygwin/bin). I can reproduce > the problem on my system by renaming sh.exe and he assures me that > typing ''/bin/sh'' at the bash prompt works. > > I've read the section about SHELL in the GNU make manual at > http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC54 and > everything seems to be correct. > > One other thing, probably as a result of SHELL being cmd.exe, is that > some paths in the output from make -p are in quotes, e.g.: > > # makefile (from `client.mk', line 87) > TOPSRCDIR := "/cygdrive/d/Projects/mozilla" > > line 87 in client.mk being: > > TOPSRCDIR := $(shell echo "$(TOPSRCDIR)" | sed -e 's%//%/%') > > I'm stumped. What have I/we missed? Can anyone suggest anything else to > try? > > Thanks. > > Regards, > > Parish > > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/