Re: mingw make problem

[Chris Sutcliffe]

Accidentally took this off the list (darn Gmail)....

On 8/22/06, William A. Hoffman <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 09:10 AM 8/22/2006, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >>But if you can not run mingw make from an msys shell then what is the point of
> >>looking for sh.exe in the PATH and setting it to be the shell, if it is not
> >>supported?
> >
> >There is a version of 'make' that is part of the MSYS distribution
> >that is separate from the MinGW 'make' (that's the reason the MinGW
> >make is actually called mingw32-make).  Earnie could probably provide
> >the details as to what the differences are between the two.
>
> Sure, I know there are two of them.  But the mingw32-make will use sh.exe
> if it finds one, and it seems to be having some process argument issues.
>
> >>One more thing, do you think this discussion would be better on the mingw or
> >>msys mailing list?
> >
> >For the MSYS specific stuff, I think directing it to the the MSYS list
> >would be an idea.
>
> So, is the mingw32-make not working with sh.exe from MSYS, MSYS specific?
> Or should that not work, or should that be on the mingw list?

I'd take it to the MSYS list (perhaps cross-post on the MinGW list)
for a definitive answer.  TBH I'm not all that familiar with the
internals of MSYS.

Chris

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