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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:38:50 +0000
From: Mark Ovens <parish AT ntlworld DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh
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Max Bowsher wrote:
> Parish wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Is SHELL set in the Windows environment? (i.e. before bash starts)
> 

Yes, to /bin/bash.

>>> 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:
> ...
>>> # makefile
>>> MAKEFLAGS =  --win32 -p
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Get him to run "ls -l /bin/sh" and also "id" and send the output here.
> 

I'll do that.

> Max.
> 
> 
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