I am been searching the list archives and have still not been able to
get make to function properly.
I have cygwin on Win 2000 with make 3.78.1.
I was having trouble getting the shell to be cmd. If I put SHELL :=
cmd.exe in the makefile that seems to do the job. I can echo $(SHELL)
and see c:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe. If I put the SHELL := cmd.exe in a
top level make the SHELL variable does not appear to be passed down to
sub-makes. The echo $(SHELL) comes out as c:/WINNT/system32/sh.exe.
I have tried to play around with my path. That seems to have some
affect but my make still fails.
If the shell is set to sh then the error I get is a syntax error on the
following line
if not exist dir/ mkdir $(SOMEDIRNAME)
This of course does not work in sh.
Once I get the SHELL to be cmd.exe I get a different error.
Using make -d I see:
Creating temporary batch file c:\Temp\make16962.sh
echo c:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe (this is coming from my echo command)
A subdirectory or file .exe already exists.
Error occurred while processing: .exe
A subdirectory or file c:\Temp\make16962.sh already exists.
Error occurred while processing: c:\Temp\make16962.sh
make: *** [debug] Error 1
CreateProcess(c:\WINNT\system32\cmd,c:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
c:\Temp\make16962.sh,...)
The c:\Temp directory exists and is empty. I am sure I am missing
something simple but at this point I can not see it.
Thanks
Howard Olson
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