Re: gmake troubles under Win XP -- opening shells instead of executing commands

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> writes:

  sb> Thanks for the reply. I tried -win32 on the make command line,

That option is only available in the Cygwin port of GNU make.  It is not
an option on the vanilla FSF version of GNU make.

  sb> It would help in diagnosing this if I could find out what commands
  sb> MAKE actually passes to the command processor. Does anyone know
  sb> how to do that, short of altering the source code and recompiling?

Not sure what you're asking... make prints the commands it runs.  If
you're looking for anything other than that you'd need to change the
code.

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