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Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh

Parish wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKGROUP>
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MKPASSWD>
>
> I guess that you are saying that make uses /etc/passwd when setting
> SHELL?

No, it doesn't.

I think this was suggested to you because it is a common problem.

> I checked on my system and I do have /etc/passwd and /etc/group so I
> guess I must have run them (it's along time since I installed cygwin).

Setup does this automatically at initial install.

When users/groups are added/deleted/changed in Windows, they need to be
regenerated though.

> However, I did try renamimg them, starting a new cygwin shell and
> running make, and SHELL was still set to /bin/sh.exe

Max.


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