Re: if SHELL not set, COMSPEC used - not working?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:51:15 -0800
> Accept-Language: en-US
> acceptlanguage: en-US
> Cc: 
> 
> The GNU Make manual says: 
> 
> "On MS-DOS, if SHELL is not set, the value of the variable COMSPEC (which is 
> always set) is used instead."
> 
> This does not seem to work for me?  Why, is this a bug?  

No, it's because the above says "On MS-DOS", while you are on Windows:

> D:\tmp>ver
> 
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

On MS-Windows, you need to explicitly say "SHELL=cmd.exe" in the
Makefile (or on the Make command line) to get this behavior.