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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:09:32 +0000
> From: Greg Chicares <address@hidden>
> Cc: 
> 
> For me, it seems to work as you expect, using a native msw build
> of the original make-3.81 sources:
> 
> C:\cygwin\home\chicares\tmp>\usr\bin\make -f foobar
> ver
> 
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

Probably because you don't have a sh.exe anywhere on your native
Windows PATH.  The Windows port of Make always invokes a Unixy shell
if it can find it, but falls back on cmd.exe.  This is regardless of
whether SHELL is or isn't set in the environment.