From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem compiling GRX 2.3
Date: 19 Jun 1998 13:17:18 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Hartmut Schirmer wrote:
> > Bill Bartley wrote:
> > > if exist draw\*.o     del draw\*.o
> > > make.exe[2]: *** [clean] Error -1
> > Looks like you don't compile under plain vanilla command.com ...

> One case why this could happen is if Bill has SHELL variable defined
> in the environment which points to Bash or some such.
>
> Makefile's which want to be robust in such cases should either set
> SHELL=command.com or call command.com explicitly, like this:
>
>     command.com /c if exist draw\*.o del draw\*.o
>
> (Note: "command.com" and not "command", since Bash has an
> incompatible built-in command by the latter name.)

And don't set the MAKESHELL-variable to d:/path/bash.exe either!

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