Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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	Igor

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Parish wrote:

> Drash, Jim [NCSUS] wrote:
> > did you run a mkpasswd and mkgroup on this person's machine post install?
>
> Not as far as I am aware. I certainly didn't on my system. What effect
> does/should this have?
>
> Regards,
>
> Parish
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Parish [mailto:parish at ntlworld dot com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:39 AM
> > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> > Subject: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh
> >
> >
> > I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't get
> > it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to
> > cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell.
> >
> > My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run
> > make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are:
> >
> > # GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> > # Built for i686-pc-cygwin
> > # Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
> > #       Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > # environment
> > COMSPEC = C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
> >
> > # environment
> > PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
> >
> > # makefile
> > SHELL = C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe
> >
> > # makefile
> > MAKEFLAGS =  --win32 -p
> >
> > # environment
> > PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:
> > /cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:
> > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN:
> > /cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm:
> > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs:
> > /cygdrive/c/util:/cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> >
> > # environment
> > MAKE_MODE = unix
> >
> > On my system SHELL=/bin/sh and MAKEFLAGS= --unix -p, which is correct.
> >
> > The following are in his environment (and matches mine):
> >
> > BASH=/bin/bash
> > BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="8" [4]="release"
> > [5]="i686-pc-cygwin")
> > BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(8)-release'
> > COMSPEC='C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
> > HOME=/cygdrive/d/Projects
> > HOSTTYPE=i686
> > MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin
> > MAKE_MODE=unix
> > OPTERR=1
> > OPTIND=1
> > OS=Windows_NT
> > OSTYPE=cygwin
> > PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/:
> > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:
> > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/util:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/:
> > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN:
> > /cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools:
> > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm:
> > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin'
> > PATHEXT='.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
> > PIPESTATUS=([0]="2")
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
> >
> > SHLVL=1
> >
> > He has sh.exe in /bin (/cygdrive/d/Projects/cygwin/bin). I can reproduce
> > the problem on my system by renaming sh.exe and he assures me that
> > typing ''/bin/sh'' at the bash prompt works.
> >
> > I've read the section about SHELL in the GNU make manual at
> > http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC54 and
> > everything seems to be correct.
> >
> > One other thing, probably as a result of SHELL being cmd.exe, is that
> > some paths in the output from make -p are in quotes, e.g.:
> >
> > # makefile (from `client.mk', line 87)
> > TOPSRCDIR := "/cygdrive/d/Projects/mozilla"
> >
> > line 87 in client.mk being:
> >
> > TOPSRCDIR := $(shell echo "$(TOPSRCDIR)" | sed -e 's%//%/%')
> >
> > I'm stumped. What have I/we missed? Can anyone suggest anything else to
> > try?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Parish

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