Re: Make fails to execute shell commands using sh under Win32

[Earnie Boyd]

Yes, it's a Cygwin thing and is documented in the Cygwin documentation. 
However, --unix has been the default for years.  I would have suggested
--win32.  There's also an environment variable name MAKE_MODE, IIRC,
check the Cygwin documentation to be sure that can be set.  If you have
that set to --win32 then that's the mode you get.

Earnie.

"Fairweather, James" wrote:
> 
> You know, I don't know.  I spent a frustrating few hours with the same 
> problem as you described, and eventually stumbled on the --unix option.  I 
> got it by typing "make -?" on the command line.  I guess it's a cygwin thing. 
>  Anyway, I usually go with "whatever works".
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Phares [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 5:07 PM
> To: Fairweather, James
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Make fails to execute shell commands using sh under Win32
> 
> Thanks--it works now.
> 
> By the way--is there any info about --unix anywhere in the info document?
> I couldn't find it at first glance.
> 
> -ted
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Fairweather, James wrote:
> 
> > try make --unix
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ted Phares [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:27 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Make fails to execute shell commands using sh under Win32
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using make 3.79.1 for Win32 (the make binary distributed with cygwin):
> >
> > I found that make fails to execute shell commands when using sh.
> 
> ...
> 
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