Makefile command interpreter

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:15:05PM +1200 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> I have a few makefiles which are written to run with the cmd.exe command  
> interpreter, which won't work with cygwin's make (which uses /bin/sh).
>
> Setting export SHELL=cmd.exe
> calls cmd.exe alright, but then sits there forever waiting for input.

Just a wild guess, as I have not tested this:

Have you tried cmd.exe with the /c switch? If cmd.exe is called without
that switch, it expects input from the standard input (console).

HTH,
   Spiro.

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