Re: SHELL overide

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Gerould S <address@hidden> writes:

  gs> I just compiled GNU Make 3.8 on the PC with the microsoft
  gs> compilers. I'm trying to overide the shell that is used by make.

Please use the address@hidden list for any Windows-related issues with
GNU make.  Thanks!

  gs> I've tried various things like:
  gs> a) set the SHELL enviroment variable to the ksh that I want to use
  gs> b) set the COMSPEC enviroment variable to point to my ksh
  gs> c) do something like gnumake.exe SHELL=/myfiles/ksh.exe

  gs> None of these seems to work - did I miss something ?

All I can offer is that you be sure you've read and understood the
information in the README.W32 file, where SHELL handling is discussed.
There is also a little bit of information about this in the GNU make
manual.

Other than that, see if anyone on address@hidden can help.

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