From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
        "'Wojciech Galazka'" <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: W2K error message documentation
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:30:33 +0200
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> The original problem was with a Makefile that invoked command.com
> like shown above.  That Makefile does that because the command
> it wants to run is non-portable to other shells.

So this is a makefile with

SHELL = /bin/sh

but with a certain rule like

foo: bar
	command.com /c some_DOS_only_command

?

> When I said that we will need to find a way to run cmd on those
> systems, I meant the following: we need a method to detect such
> a system from the Makefile, and then run "cmd.exe /c ..." instead
> of "command.com /c ...".

Since we can fairly easily detect NT/2K/XP (right?), couldn't make
substitute '\1cmd.exe /c' for '^\([-@]*\)command\(.com\)? /c'
unconditionally in commands?  That only leaves more complicated
rules (eg some sh-based if-then-else that invokes command.com at
some point) without handling; even those could be handled by
substituting everywhere in a command instead of just the start
(though that might break things somewhere).