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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:14:00 +0000
From: Robin Crampton <robinc AT bacg DOT com>
Sender: Robin Crampton <robinc AT bacg DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (djgpp AT delorie DOT com)
Subject: Re: Make strangeness
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>Please post the Makefile, or at least the part thereof which includes   =

the
>above command.

Okay (fragment):

$(CONFIG_HEADER): stamp-h
stamp-h: $(CONFIG_HEADER_IN) $(top_builddir)/config.status
    cd $(top_builddir) \
      && CONFIG_FILES=3D CONFIG_HEADERS=3D$(CONFIG_HEADER) \
         $(SHELL) ./config.status
    @echo timestamp > stamp-h
$(srcdir)/$(CONFIG_HEADER_IN): stamp-h.in
$(srcdir)/stamp-h.in: $(top_srcdir)/configure.in $(ACLOCAL) acconfig.h
    cd $(top_srcdir) && autoheader
    echo timestamp > $(srcdir)/stamp-h.in

After further investigation, the bug appears to be with make/bash,

all: =

 echo hello && echo there

fails in the same way.  Output is

$ make
echo hello && echo there
make.exe: *** [all] Error -1

So make/bash doesn't like &&.  Hmmm.  Well I _could_ live with that...

>Exactly how did you ``install /bin/sh'?

mkdir d:/bin
cp d:/djgpp/bin/bash.exe d:/bin/sh
Worked fine for configure (which failed before I did this and only this).

(In AUTOEXEC.BAT: set SHELL=3Dd:/djgpp/bin/bash.exe)

>> PS  set | less doesn't seem to work.  Hmmm.
>From the COMMAND.COM prompt?  It certainly works for me.  What are the
>problems that you see?

No, from bash.  There is no output. $? =3D 0.
BTW, without spaces I get:

$ set=DDless
bash.exe: set=DDless: command not found

which is strange behaviour for bash (fine under Linux).  =