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RE: ($shell cd) result different if including cygwin/bin directory in path


On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 11 April 2006 15:26, Omar BELKHODJA wrote:
>
> > Sorry Dave, but I don't understand which command you are talking about.
> > Are  talking about 'cd' ? I don't see any 'cd' command in the cygwin/bin
> > directory. If there was a 'cd' comand in the cygwin/bin directory, when
> > I type 'cd' directly from the DOS command prompt, I should have the same
> > empty string that I have from the ($shell cd), but this is not the case.
>
>   Oh, of course, it's a builtin in both.  Doh!  It's the 'sh' executable that
> is getting in the way, not 'cd' at all.  Make looks for 'sh' in order to run
> the ($shell ...) command.
>
>   1)  Do you have SHELL set in your environment vars?
>   2)  Are you using a version of make that understands the MAKE_MODE
> variable or the --win32 and --unix flags?

If the Makefile does a recursive make (using $(MAKE)), and your gmake
doesn't set $(MAKE) properly (i.e., it's set to "make"), then there's a
chance that the recursive invocation is picking up Cygwin's make.  You
could set MAKE=gmake explicitly, or indeed set MAKE_MODE=win32 to make
Cygwin make behave the same as the Win32 version...
	Igor
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