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Re: make refuses to enter "unix-mode". Problem disappeared


Hi,

sorry for disturbing. After an (involuntary) reinstall of Perl 5.8.0 the
problem is not reproducable anymore.

-Markus

Markus Hanke wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Markus Hanke wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in short the following lines say most of the problem:
> > > __________________________________________
> > > mhe at NB000687 ~/.cpan/build/Digest-MD5-2.23
> > > $ set | grep -i make_mode
> > > MAKE_MODE=unix
> > >
> > > mhe at NB000687 ~/.cpan/build/Digest-MD5-2.23
> > > $ make
> > > /c: Can't open /c: No such file or directory
> > > make: *** [config] Error 2
> > >
> > > mhe at NB000687 ~/.cpan/build/Digest-MD5-2.23
> > > $ make --unix
> > > __________________________________________
> > >
> > > So it seems, that my environment variable "make_mode" is correctly set
> > > to use posix style things.
> > > Wy does make work then, if I pass "--unix", which should not be
> > > neccessary?
> > > I searched for the sources of make.exe, but didn't find any to very my
> > > experienced behaviour
> > > on it.
> > >
> > > Some suggestions?
> >
>
> >
> > The error you reported above makes little sense without [at least the
> > relevant snippet of] the Makefile.
>
> Hi Igor,
> thats not correct, because of two reasons:
> a) i get the the same error for nearly every Makefile I use.
> b) what I wanted to state is that there is a difference in the output
> between the call of "make" and "make --unix", where no difference
> should be, because of the value of "MAKE_MODE".
>
> The output error "Can't open /c" results out of the parameter "/c" which
> is given from make to the called shell "/bin/sh", which would be correct
> for "cmd.exe".
>
> > You can get the source of make by checking the "Src" box for the "make"
> > package in setup.exe.  You will find it in /usr/src/make-<version>/
>
> Ok, that was ease. I'm sorry.
>
> > P.S. Please configure your mailer to not send text attachments inline.
> > Inline cygcheck output confuses the archive search engine...  Thanks.
>
> Sorry again.
>
> -Markus

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