# HG changeset patch
# User Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
# Date 1084224694 0
# Node ID 364a01a6ad9afd1dff96cf7040d50f9c4182e4a0
# Parent  d43c6081f39c4548a7bd18520ac8ddc867b47466
Added note about CreateProcess failures from make.exe

diff -r d43c6081f39c -r 364a01a6ad9a etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon May 10 21:09:51 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon May 10 21:31:34 2004 +0000
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@
 
   configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
 
+* Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure.
+
+Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem
+to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that
+fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead.
+
 * Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
 
 The error message might be something like this: