[Harbour] failure to 'install'

Viktor Szakáts harbour.01 at syenar.hu
Wed Jul 1 17:10:28 EDT 2009


That's quite strange from GNU Make and I don't know what is the proper
solution here as COMSPEC is accessed from a lot of places.

Also, it should be checked what happens on DOS and Win9x.

Brgds,
Viktor

On 2009.07.01., at 22:55, April White wrote:

> April White wrote:
>> The ComSpec environment variable points to cmd.exe.
> In file config/win/global.cf is this section:
>   ifeq ($(COMSPEC),) #location of command.com
>       ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
>           COMSPEC := cmd.exe
>       else
>           COMSPEC := command.com
>       endif
>   endif
>
> The upper case COMSPEC does not find the default environment  
> variable ComSpec.  I do not know enough about mingw32-make nor  
> config files to attempt a change.
>
> When I removed the ComSpec environment variable and added COMSPEC  
> the installation appears to be successful, I now have:
>   Harbour 2.0.0beta2 (Rev. 11587)
>
> I will amend my batch file that loads my development environment for  
> Harbour to create the upper case variable; at least, I will try to  
> do so.
>
> April
>
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