On 06/05/2013 05:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Is that demand from the "MinGW Makefiles" generator that sh.exe not > be on the PATH necessary any more? The reason I ask this is the > strings command does indicate that mingw32-make.exe contains a > reference to sh.exe, but all the Makefiles generated by "MinGW > Makefiles" specify > > SHELL = cmd.exe > > so it seems unlikely that mingw32-make.exe would get confused by those > Makefiles if sh.exe were on the PATH.
It looks like Bill added that check here: http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=14cbc957 Bill, the commit message doesn't say why. Do you remember? The SHELL=cmd was present at the time the commit was made. -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
