Re: make environment

[Jason Pearce]

In Cygwin /bin/sh is actuall ash. Try man sh to reveal the truth. You 
also want to read up on $MAKE_MODE, set in /etc/profile.

sh(1)
NAME
      ash - a shell

SYNOPSIS
      ash [ -efIijnsxz ] [ +efIijnsxz ] [ -c command ] [ arg ] ...

COPYRIGHT
      Copyright 1989 by Kenneth Almquist.

DESCRIPTION
      Ash  is a version of sh with features similar to those of the 
System V
      shell.  This manual page lists all the features  of  ash  but  
concen-
      trates on the ones not in other shells.


David Boyce wrote:

> Take a look at the GNU make manual 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_mono/make.html) and read 
> section 5.2 "Command Execution". Note that it says "By default, the 
> program `/bin/sh' is used." But do read the whole section for background.
>
> -David Boyce
>
> At 05:32 PM 5/10/2005, Adam Heinz wrote:
>
> > [ Windows XP SP 2, Visual Studio 2003, Cygwin 1.5.12, Make 3.80 ]
> >
> > I'm using a test makefile with a single goal:
> >
> > all:
> >         @echo COMSPEC = $(COMSPEC)
> >         @echo MAKESHELL = $(MAKESHELL)
> >         @echo SHELL = $(SHELL)
> >
> > When I have Visual Studio drive the makefile with
> >
> >         make -k -C $(InputDir)\.. all
> >
> > I get
> >
> >         COMSPEC = /bin/bash
> >         MAKESHELL = /bin/bash
> >         SHELL = /bin/sh.exe
> >
> > But when I tell Visual Studio to:
> >
> >         echo COMSPEC = $(COMSPEC)
> >         echo MAKESHELL = $(MAKESHELL)
> >         echo SHELL = $(SHELL)
> >
> > I get
> >
> >         COMSPEC = /bin/bash
> >         MAKESHELL = /bin/bash
> >         SHELL = /bin/bash
> >
> > which is the desired behavior -- mirroring the environment that I 
> > launched
> > Visual Studio in.
> >
> > Why is make substituting in a default $SHELL?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
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