> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:47:31 -0500 > From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > > %% "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > eb> COMSPEC is the equivalent to SHELL. It is available on DOS and > eb> Windows. I don't know if OS is.
OS exists only on versions of Windows that are descendants of the NT family, i.e. NT, 2000, and XP. It doesn't exist on Windows 9x/ME. > Hm. Maybe the DOS/Windows shell management code in GNU make should be > made aware of, and utilize, the COMSPEC variable (say, if SHELL is not > set). Make already does that, see variable.c. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
