SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh

Mark Ovens parish@ntlworld.com
Wed Mar 12 17:56:00 GMT 2003


Max Bowsher wrote:
> Parish wrote:
>>> I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't
>>> get 
>>> it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to
>>> cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell.
>> Is SHELL set in the Windows environment? (i.e. before bash starts)
>
Yes, to /bin/bash.
>>> My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run
>>> make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are:
> ...
>>> # makefile
>>> MAKEFLAGS = --win32 -p
>>>> He has sh.exe in /bin (/cygdrive/d/Projects/cygwin/bin). I can
>>> reproduce 
>>> the problem on my system by renaming sh.exe and he assures me that
>>> typing ''/bin/sh'' at the bash prompt works.
>> Get him to run "ls -l /bin/sh" and also "id" and send the output here.
>
I'll do that.
> Max.
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