Re: pipe read hang on Win 2000 with make 3.79.1

[J . B .]

>  PKGDIR = $(shell echo this.is.a.test | sed 's:\.:/:g')

>Your best bet is to ask on address@hidden, but, did >you try running this 
>directoy at the command line, >without using make's shell function?

>If that doesn't work, then it's not a make issue at >all and you should ask 
>the Cygwin or even the MKS or >Microsoft folks.

Thanks for the reply.  I did submit this to address@hidden as well.  One thing 
I failed to make clear is that these piped commands DO work from the command 
line of every shell I've tried, and they DO work when running a $shell in a 
single make file.  The problem arises when recursively running a make with 
piped shell commands - AND the make has to be recursed into about five 
directories deep.  Also, I don't have to use echo and sed - I can use any other 
programs that do text I/O.  One other thing - this all works with Cygwin's 
version of make.  It only fails on the win32 port provided by gnu.org.  Thanks 
again, JB