Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:50:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: bug in ginstall under bash ?
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Maurice Lombardi wrote:

> SHELL = /bin/sh
> 
> all:
>         /bin/ginstall -c anyfile anydir ;
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> If I don't put the ; at the end of the last line make fails with a message:
> 
> /bin/ginstall -c anyfile anydir
> make.exe: *** [all] Error -1
> 
> with the ; included it is ok.

Do you actually have ginstall.exe in the /bin directory on the current
drive?

If not, then what you see is a feature, not a bug: Bash treats
/bin/foo pathnames specially, since many Unix scripts use them
unconditionally.  The semi-colon on the command line forces Make to
call the shell, and then it works.  Without the semi-colon, the
command is invoked directly by Make, and then it fails because there's
no /bin/ginstall.exe.

The correct solution is to configure the package so that INSTALL is
replaced with "${DJDIR}/bin/ginstall -c".  Then it will work
regardless.