Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 11:43:32 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Implicit dependency on the existence of /bin/ in make 3.79.1-7 - possible bug
Message-ID: <20030521154332.GB3096@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <E19IVFU-0000Gd-00 AT oceanus DOT uk DOT clara DOT net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <E19IVFU-0000Gd-00@oceanus.uk.clara.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:11:24PM +0100, Paul Connell wrote:
>Basically, if make is intended to be usable outside of a proper install 
>of cygwin, this is a bug. If not, it's not.
>
>Thanks for reading.

As it stands now, make defaults --win32 mode outside of a proper install
of cygwin.  You properly identified the line that caused the change in
behavior.  The code assumes that if it is running in a properly
configured environment, it should default to UNIX mode, otherwise it
defaults to win32.

If you want to submit a patch to rectify the behavior, I'll certainly
consider it.  I'm not sure how it would work, exactly, since just setting
the SHELL to something doesn't guarantee that make should be in UNIX mode.

Workarounds are to set the environment variable MAKE_MODE=unix or to add
the --unix option to your make command line.

cgf
--
Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email.
Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam AT sourceware DOT org
and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/