Re: [AD] Mingw Makefile problem under 2k

[Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In reply to Henrik Stokseth <hstokset@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>how come? command.com wouldn't understand double backslashes would it? 
>and if bourne shell is installed AFAIK copy and erase will not work 
>since they are built-in commands in command.com. i do not see any easy 
>way to support bourne shell so why try? it ends up beeing ugly no matter 
>what we do.

The DJGPP makefile supports building from bash or from command.com; to
activate the `bash' mode, you have to write:

 UNIX_TOOLS=1 ./fixdjgpp.sh

You could do something similar for MinGW.

Actually, you can probably check whether make is running under bash or
under command.com by checking the SHELL environment variable:

ifneq ($(findstring bash,$(SHELL)),)
# using bash
else
# using command.com
endif

That's not very well tested, but it works on my system :-)

If you have such an automatic check, then surely you can just rewrite
the few odd lines which behave differently depending on the shell?

Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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