Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:46:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hao Lai <hlai AT irus DOT rri DOT uwo DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with makefile
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Hao Lai wrote:

> make.exe[1]: Leaving directory 'c:\home\hlai\src\util'
> No command name seen.
> make.exe: ***[stopW] Error -1

Please make a point of posting at least some part(s) of the
Makefile(s) when reporting such problems.  It is very hard to
second-guess your problems without any clue about what did you ask
Make to do.

The following is based on guesswork.  Don't blame me if it turns out
that my guess is totally wrong.

I think that you are trying to run a Makefile which assumes a
Unix-style shell, and some of its rules use syntax that only
Unix-style shells understand.  If that is indeed the case, you will
need to download and install the DJGPP port of Bash
(v2gnu/bshNNNNb.zip, where NNNN is the version number) and possibly
some other utilities, such as `cp', `rm', `mv' and others, if the
rules call them.  You will also need to make sure the Makefile(s) have
a line like this near the beginning:

       SHELL = /bin/sh

I suggest to read the file README.dos in the DJGPP Make distribution,
especially the sections called "The shell issue" and "SHELL=/bin/sh --
or is it?".