Re: [AD] Makefile fix

[Bobby Ferris <baf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> On Saturday 07 August 2004 03:40, Bobby Ferris wrote:
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> > cmd.exe and maybe command.com intercept mkdir too
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> They both recognize mkdir as an internal command.
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> > to get the unix 
> > utils binaries (like echo, mkdir, etc) you have to put .exe aftyer, like 
> > mkdir.exe ;)
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> This is true from the commandline. It's not nescessarily true when calling 
> mkdir from within a makefile, cf the problems with echo if there is an 
> sh.exe in your path.
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> Evert
>  
The echo problem is the makefiles use echo, which uses the system echo, 
not the unix utils one. You could use echo.exe in that case and it would 
call the unix utils one.