RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K

["Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" <kfleisc1 at ford dot com>]

The lowercase $(shell ...) statement is a builtin GNU Make function and has
nothing to do with the $(SHELL) variable, expcept that the specified shell
is used for command execution. My question is: why does command execution
does not work properly when I specify /bin/sh explicitly?

Karsten


-----Original Message-----
From: Axelsson, Andreas [mailto:axl@dice.se]
Sent: Mittwoch, 2. August 2000 09:38
To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
Subject: RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K



make is case sensitive, you should use ${SHELL} not ${shell}

/axl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fleischer, Karsten (K.) [mailto:kfleisc1@ford.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:34 AM
> To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K
> 
> 
> I have a problem with gmake and SHELL, too.
> In the makefile the first two lines are
> 
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> export TIME := $(shell date '+%T')
> 
> Following are more invocations of $(shell ...).
> For each $(shell ...) statements, gmake outputs strange 
> characters like
> "h£a" to the window.
> When I comment out the first line everything works fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Karsten
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RobertWoodcock [mailto:rmw@fractalgraphics.com.au]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 2. August 2000 13:40
> To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Solved. The remaining problem was with the config in our makefile. I 
> changed something and forgot <embarrassed look>. So it all 
> works now. Time 
> to get make to run multiple jobs so I can use these two 
> processors on this 
> new machine, now how do you do that....
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	RobertWoodcock [SMTP:rmw@fractalgraphics.com.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 2 August 2000 8:00 PM
> To:	'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject:	RE: Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Okay a bit further along now. Turns out the build script was 
> adding to the
> PATH environment variable so that /bin and /usr/bin were no 
> longer first
> (third and fourth respectively). Why this made sh.exe a not 
> found I do not
> know but there you go.
> 
> The second problem with the INCLUDE path environment variable 
> going AWOL is 
> still kicking around. I'll hunt some more, maybe this is just 
> my new config 
> and I hadn't notice a few minor changes....
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	RobertWoodcock [SMTP:rmw@fractalgraphics.com.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 2 August 2000 7:28 PM
> To:	'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject:	Shell spawning and environment problem on W2K
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The following doesn't work:
> 
> $ make
> make: sh.exe: Command not found
> make: *** [all] Error 127
> 
> The following does sort of:
> $ make SHELL=/bin/sh
> 
> [ all ] fracviewer-dep
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/f/bmw/Dev/ft'
> cd FracViewer; make fast-dep
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/f/bmw/Dev/ft/FracViewer'
> [snip]
> 
> The problem with this version is the environment variables for various
> include paths are EMPTY in the build but are defined in the 
> original shell. 
> It would appear that environment variables are not being passed to the
> other processes spawned by make (????).
> 
> I've checked the list archive and it seems others have 
> similar problems
> with sh in June, July and August. I have just finished 
> re-installing the
> latest version from my local mirror, same problem. 
> Unfortunately a solution 
> was not posted.
> 
> What makes it even weirder is I have w2k on two machines. One 
> exhibits the
> problem with either an older release or the latest one. The 
> other has the
> older release and works fine (I dare not change it to the 
> newer release at
> the moment).
> 
> Anyone have a clue what's going on?
> 
> Rob
> 
> --
> Robert Woodcock
> R&D Manager
> Fractal Graphics
> 39 Fairway
> Nedlands
> Western Australia 6009
> Phone: +61 8 9386 7917
> Fax: + 61 8 9386 2460
> rmw@fractalgraphics.com.au
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