From 7aa70236bc040be8349ff5113578520e5b1ed8ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:31:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about CreateProcess failures from make.exe --- etc/PROBLEMS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 97c7e6cf67e..c3be7f83a7c 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ __MSVCRT__, like so: 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: -- 2.39.2