From 94b041809bc2735d8aa2e813ed9a2d6528f3fa29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:28:10 +0000 Subject: (SHELL, MAKESHELL): Don't use /dos/command, it can invoke an incompatible version of COMAMND.COM. --- msdos/mainmake.v2 | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/msdos/mainmake.v2 b/msdos/mainmake.v2 index 626ed5f350c..2e613156e33 100644 --- a/msdos/mainmake.v2 +++ b/msdos/mainmake.v2 @@ -32,8 +32,15 @@ # This gork is required for those who use a Unix-style shell, and # have SHELL in the environment pointing to it. Here we force # Make to use COMMAND.COM instead. This Makefile won't work otherwise. -SHELL=/dos/command -MAKESHELL=/dos/command +# (The /xyzzy directory is used to minimize the chance that someone +# actually has such a directory with an incompatible command.com. We +# used to have /dos there, but some Windows installations have an old +# version of DOS stashed in that directory, and command.com from there +# won't run on Windows, complaining about "Incorrect DOS version". +# Make will look up PATH for the shell executable, so the directory name +# is not important.) +SHELL=/xyzzy/command +MAKESHELL=/xyzzy/command # Generate a full pathname of the top-level installation directory top_srcdir := $(subst \,/,$(shell cd)) -- cgit v1.2.3