RE: Shell commands in makefile not working (running Windows XP)

[Matt Lavoie]

I'm actually working on a related problem at the moment.  I haven't tried to get it to expand an environment variable in the SHELL command -- I just put in the full path.

 

MAKESHELL = C:\windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
SHELL = C:\windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe

I first tried setting MAKESHELL (as per docs) but it did not override?

 

[I'm trying to run gnumake under cygwin with makefiles that work if you invoke things from a cmd.exe shell, or from a cygwin shell.]

 

The issue I'm encountering at the moment is that gnumake is creating a process in this way:

 

gmake.exe: Entering directory `c:/sw/nvr50/drivers/ddraw'
CreateProcess(C:\windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe,C:/windows/SYSTEM32/cmd.exe -c "c:/sw/tools/win32/MiscBuildTools/nvutil-101 -echo \"====================\"",...)

 

Issuing this from the command line directly I find that cmd.exe (on winxp) is senstive to /C versus -c  (*sigh*).  Anyone know if there is a way to get gmake to change that option via some var?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Merz [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:04 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: Shell commands in makefile not working (running Windows XP)

Did you invoke make with the -e option to get that to work?

 

So by fully qualified you mean no Environment variables in the file path?

i.e.

SHELL=%SystemRoot%\win32\cmd.exe would be WRONG

 

And

SHELL=C:\Windows\win32\cmd.exe would be CORRECT??

 

I'm going to try that now...thanks a bunch

 

-Scott

The Insitu Group

address@hidden

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Lavoie [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:59 AM
To: 'Scott Merz'
Subject: RE: Shell commands in makefile not working (running Windows XP)

 

I found that putting a fully qualified path into SHELL= did get make to use cmd.exe again.