sh.exe: Command not found

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Feb 21 20:38:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:25:02PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Mumit has clarified things in this regard.  I'd forgotten that make would
>> look for sh.exe in the path.  I don't know why this isn't working for
>> you.  Possibly setting the SHELL environment variable or passing a SHELL=
>> command line argument will work, as Mumit suggested.
>
>You can pass SHELL as a variable either on the command line as I had
>shown, or in the makefile itself, but never taken from the environment. 
>Make by design ignores SHELL environment variable, given that it causes 
>very weird errors when users have say csh as the SHELL variable.

Hmm.  I thought the Cygwin code had a fallback to the SHELL environment
variable but I just checked and that is not the case.

Make does find sh.exe in the PATH, though, as you said.

cgf

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