Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe

[Parish]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> However, it's not rocket science.  When --win32 is given then expect to 
> use the COMSPEC shell syntax, the command line switch overrides the 
> MAKE_MODE environment variable and MAKEFLAGS just passes to children 
> make processes in the command argv.  So the result will be that the 
> parent operates in --unix mode while it's children operate in --win32 
> mode.  Make sure to remove the --win32 from the MAKEFLAGS variable.

Yes, I understand that. The problem I have is where is MAKEFLAGS being 
set. It isn't on the command line and neither --win32 nor --unix is 
being passed on the command line. MAKEFLAGS appears to be being set to 
empty by configure.

Thanks anyway. I'll go to the cygwin lists.

Regards,

Parish

> Earnie.