Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:35:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jason A Bennett <jasonb AT gfsmortgage DOT com>
cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Make error
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jason A Bennett wrote:

> Is there any reason make would try to run the compiler (cl) and exit with a -1 
> error? It seems the compiler isn't being excuted. I've tried defining SHELL, to 
> no avail. This is under WinNT using DJGPP make.

Please post the messages printed by Make and the shortest Makefile you 
can throw together which reproduces this behavior.

In general, I can think about several possible incompatibilities with cl 
(which is the Microsoft compiler, I assume), but it is hard to decide 
which one is the more probable without seeing some symptoms.  The first 
thing I would look at is the backslash-vs-forward slash issue.