On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:42:46PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:54:33 +0900 > > From: Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> > > Cc: psm...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org, bo...@kolpackov.net > > > > The point is, batch shell mode only flag is advertized in config.h as > > being the workaround for the broken sh -c. I'd like that workaround to > > be available at runtime instead of build time. > > I don't have a problem with that, never did. > > > And now that i look at it, it *is* another sh -c bug. sigh. > > MSYS Bash _is_ weird, it tries to solve a hard problem, and sometimes > fails. That's why using it with a native Make is not such a great > idea. > > > I'd be all for detecting if the shell used is win32 native or not > > Make already does that, but only by the executable's file name. I > don't see any good reasons to try detecting MSYS Bash as opposed to > native Windows ports of shells, as there aren't good native ports. > > > at least, a user-runtime-togglable workaround for that would be better. > > So we're back to square one. How about that first patch of mine? > > I have no problems with your original patch. I think I said that > right there and then. If Paul agrees, I will commit it.
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