Re: mingw make problem

[William A. Hoffman]

At 10:21 AM 8/19/2006, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Quoting "William A. Hoffman" <address@hidden>:
>
>>
>>I get a different failure when the shell is from msys:
>>
>>
>>c:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe  "a.c" "b.c"
>>CreateProcess(C:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe,C:/msys/1.0/bin/sh.exe -c 
>>"c:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe  \"a.c\" \"b.c\"",...)
>>Putting child 0x00a73ca0 (broken) PID 4015928 on the chain.
>>Live child 0x00a73ca0 (broken) PID 4015928
>>/usr/bin/sh: -c: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
>You're executing the Cygwin gcc from the MSYS shell which is more than likely 
>the cause of the problem.

It does not matter if the command is gcc or not, it does not get that far.
The error is from sh parsing the command line.

-Bill