changeset 55517:364a01a6ad9a

Added note about CreateProcess failures from make.exe
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Mon, 10 May 2004 21:31:34 +0000
parents d43c6081f39c
children 10cd0e6bfb73
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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: