<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKGROUP> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD> Igor
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Parish wrote: > Drash, Jim [NCSUS] wrote: > > did you run a mkpasswd and mkgroup on this person's machine post install? > > Not as far as I am aware. I certainly didn't on my system. What effect > does/should this have? > > Regards, > > Parish > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:39 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh > > > > > > I am trying to help someone get Mozilla building on W2K but we can't get > > it to work because, it appears, the value of SHELL is being set to > > cmd.exe (i.e. COMSPEC). It is being run from the cygwin bash shell. > > > > My setup works fine so I am looking for differences. I got him to run > > make with -p and send me the output. The relevant bits from this are: > > > > # GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. > > # Built for i686-pc-cygwin > > # Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 > > # Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > > # environment > > COMSPEC = C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe > > > > # environment > > PATHEXT = .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH > > > > # makefile > > SHELL = C:/WINNT/system32/cmd.exe > > > > # makefile > > MAKEFLAGS = --win32 -p > > > > # environment > > PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32: > > /cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem: > > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN: > > /cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm: > > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs: > > /cygdrive/c/util:/cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > > > > # environment > > MAKE_MODE = unix > > > > On my system SHELL=/bin/sh and MAKEFLAGS= --unix -p, which is correct. > > > > The following are in his environment (and matches mine): > > > > BASH=/bin/bash > > BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1]="05b" [2]="0" [3]="8" [4]="release" > > [5]="i686-pc-cygwin") > > BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(8)-release' > > COMSPEC='C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' > > HOME=/cygdrive/d/Projects > > HOSTTYPE=i686 > > MACHTYPE=i686-pc-cygwin > > MAKE_MODE=unix > > OPTERR=1 > > OPTIND=1 > > OS=Windows_NT > > OSTYPE=cygwin > > PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/d/Projects/Perl/bin/: > > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT: > > /cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/util: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Resource Kit/: > > /cygdrive/c/Progra~1/Microsoft SQL Server/80/Tools/BINN: > > /cygdrive/d/Projects/WinCvs: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools/WinNT: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/MSDev98/Bin: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/Common/Tools: > > /cygdrive/d/Progra~1/Micros~1/VC98/bin:/cygdrive/d/projects/nasm: > > /cygdrive/d/Projects/MozTools/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin' > > PATHEXT='.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' > > PIPESTATUS=([0]="2") > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor > > > > SHLVL=1 > > > > He has sh.exe in /bin (/cygdrive/d/Projects/cygwin/bin). I can reproduce > > the problem on my system by renaming sh.exe and he assures me that > > typing ''/bin/sh'' at the bash prompt works. > > > > I've read the section about SHELL in the GNU make manual at > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/make/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC54 and > > everything seems to be correct. > > > > One other thing, probably as a result of SHELL being cmd.exe, is that > > some paths in the output from make -p are in quotes, e.g.: > > > > # makefile (from `client.mk', line 87) > > TOPSRCDIR := "/cygdrive/d/Projects/mozilla" > > > > line 87 in client.mk being: > > > > TOPSRCDIR := $(shell echo "$(TOPSRCDIR)" | sed -e 's%//%/%') > > > > I'm stumped. What have I/we missed? Can anyone suggest anything else to > > try? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Parish -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
