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Subject: ($shell cd) result different if including cygwin/bin directory in path
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I want to use the unix commands from an MS-DOS command prompt (grep,
find...) and for that I have included the cygwin/bin directory in my
path.
This is OK for using grep, find... but this creates me the following
problem. I am using a some kind version of gmake.exe that can work alone
(without any cygwin dll). This gmake.exe if executing a makefile with
the command ($shell cd), returns the current directory from an
MS-DOS command prompt, but if I add the cygwin/bin directory to the path
the ($shell cd) result is an empty string, as if it was executed from a
cygwin/unix environment.Is there any solution that doesn't need a change
in my makefile ?

Thanks

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