changeset 57697:64443697a546

Add note about MSYS sh.exe
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:57:18 +0000
parents fbcb259c5936
children 5e84f3fe94f0
files nt/INSTALL
diffstat 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/nt/INSTALL	Mon Oct 25 16:58:46 2004 +0000
+++ b/nt/INSTALL	Mon Oct 25 19:57:18 2004 +0000
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@
 
   In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process,
   at least for 4NT version 3.01.  Use cmd.exe, the default NT shell,
-  instead.
+  instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have
+  MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe
+  instead of sh.exe.
 
                                          sh exists     no sh