Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Gary Turner <address@hidden>:

> It all worked perfectly until I installed a compiler that put a sh 
> shell on my path. Since then all my makefiles are broken.

Bad business.  Is there a reason the compiler needs the PATH set?

> Make appears to insist on using the sh shell buried on my path rather 
> than cmd.exe
> I've tried explicitly putting SHELL = cmd.exe in my makefiles - but 
> that didn't seem to work. Putting SHELL = c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe 
> seems to sort-of work, but then all sorts of other errors come up.

Eli, I thought this was supposed to work?

> Is there a simple way (other than changing my path before running 
> make) to keep all my makefiles that worked perfectly well before 
> working?

Modify the source and rebuild make?  Create a make.bat file to modify 
the PATH and execute make.exe with the parameters passed to the 
make.bat file?  The .bat is found before .exe so executing with ``make 
-f mymakefile'' still works as expected.

Earnie