Re: Useful patch for GNUmake on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Greg Chicares <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   gc>   However, on MS-DOS and MS-Windows the value of SHELL in the
>   gc>   environment is used, since on those systems most users do not
>   gc>   set this variable, and therefore it is most likely set
>   gc>   specifically to be used by make.
> 
> OK.  Well, that's why I said "under UNIX this is true, but I don't know
> about Windows" :).
> 
> Looks like we'll have to examine the code to see how SHELL is handled on
> Windows/DOS platforms.

The manual describes the behavior of the DJGPP (aka DOS) port of GNU 
Make, since no one bothered to describe how the native Windows port 
behaves.  The DJGPP port behaves exactly as described in the manual, so 
no need to examine the sources for that port.