Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 08:57:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bob Fehrenbach <bfehrenb AT execpc DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Easy Make question


On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Bob Fehrenbach wrote:

> Recently I tried to make a makefile with gnu make, v3.74.  (I am running
> ms-dos 6.2.)  Please note that this file is processed correctly by
> nmake from Microsoft.
> 
> Basically, gnu make seems to find the files that need updating and
> puts a correct command line on the screen and immediately exits
> back to dos without having executed the line.  Changing one of the

Where did you get this port?  The latest DJGPP port I know about is 3.73.
More to the point, I'd guess your COMSPEC variable either isn't defined or 
holds something Make can't figure out, so system() don't work.