Re: [cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-06 09:59-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote: On 6/6/2013 9:48 AM, Brad King wrote: It looks like Bill added that check here: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=14cbc957 Bill, the commit message doesn't say why. Do you remember? The SHELL=cmd was present at the time the com

Re: [cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-06 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 6/6/2013 9:48 AM, Brad King wrote: It looks like Bill added that check here: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=14cbc957 Bill, the commit message doesn't say why. Do you remember? The SHELL=cmd was present at the time the commit was made. I am pretty sure it failed. Some

Re: [cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-06 Thread Brad King
On 06/05/2013 05:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Is that demand from the "MinGW Makefiles" generator that sh.exe not > be on the PATH necessary any more? The reason I ask this is the > strings command does indicate that mingw32-make.exe contains a > reference to sh.exe, but all the Makefiles generat

[cmake-developers] Questions concerning using "MinGW Makefiles" when MSYS (without sh.exe) is on the PATH

2013-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
My "build_projects" CMake project now contains ExternalProject_Add build configurations for 5 different software projects which build cleanly on Linux using the default "Unix Makefiles" generator on that platform and which build cleanly on the MinGW/MSYS/Wine platform using the "MSYS Makefiles" ge