Re: GNU make doesn't use windows cmd.exe shell

[Greg Chicares]

On 2010-08-23 08:20Z, Sebastian WAGNER wrote:
> 
> I have a problem with the latest GNU make version 3.81-2 running on a
> Windows XP system (using cygwin) and hope that you can help me.

3.82 is now available:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2010-07/msg00049.html

> I used a very old make version before and wanted to upgrade. Now it seems
> that make runs in the sh.exe shell and doesn't find the paths for the tools.
> I need to run it on the cmd.exe shell and tried to set a environment
> variable SHELL = c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe as described in the release
> notes. But this doesn't seem to work.

If it says
  make: c:windowssystem32cmd.exe: Command not found
then you might instead try writing forward slashes:
  SHELL = c:/windows/system32/cmd.exe

But, as long as you're using cmd.exe instead of sh, it would probably
be better to use a native 'make'. It should build right out of the box,
or you can download a precompiled binary here:
  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/make/make-3.82-mingw32/make-3.82-3-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma/download