Date:	Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:14:06 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
cc:	DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: make crash
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> f:/djgpp/gnu/emacs
> bash$ make install

Don't run "make install" in the Emacs distribution when SHELL points to 
Bash.  The Emacs configure and build procedure isn't Bash-safe, it 
explicitly uses features that require COMMAND.COM and won't work 
otherwise.  You are lucky to just get an error message, I have seen much 
more spectacular failures, like infinite loops and what's not.

It is very hard to write a config.bat and a Makefile that would work both 
with and without Bash.  Since Emacs has traditionally supported 
configuration and build with only Sed and rm, I cannot easily switch to 
a procedure which requires Bash.

Emacs 20 forces use of COMMAND.COM inside the Makefile, but in 19.34 you 
will have to do it manually...

But I remember the original problem was while building Tar.  Maybe you 
should try that again?

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