Re: Make on XP - shell selection?

> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:28:31 -0400
> From: Earnie Boyd <[email protected]>
> 
> > Make appears to insist on using the sh shell buried on my path rather 
> > than cmd.exe
> > I've tried explicitly putting SHELL = cmd.exe in my makefiles - but 
> > that didn't seem to work. Putting SHELL = c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe 
> > seems to sort-of work, but then all sorts of other errors come up.
> >
> 
> Eli, I thought this was supposed to work?

It does, in Make 3.81.  I suspect the OP uses an older version.