RE: Very weird MAKE/PYTHON/ASH problem.

[Paul Stodghill <stodghil at cs dot cornell dot edu>]

I forgot to mention: I see this behavior with both the 1.1.1 cygwin1.dll and
the 20000601 snapshot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Stodghill [mailto:stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 5:40 AM
> To: Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: Very weird MAKE/PYTHON/ASH problem.
> 
> 
> I've got a very weird MAKE/PYTHON/ASH problem.
> 
> Synopsis: Python running under Make cannot export a new PATH 
> value unless 
> SHELL variable in Make is overridden to something other than "sh.exe"
> 
> "Huh?" I hear you say.
> 
> Ok, Let's look at this one step at a time. Consider the 
> following Makefile:
> 
>     milhouse% cat Makefile
>     default:
>             python foo.py
>     other:
>             echo ${SHELL}
> 
> And the following Python file.
> 
>     milhouse% cat foo.py
>     import os, os.path
> 
>     os.environ['PATH'] = "/some/junk" + os.pathsep + 
> os.environ['PATH']
>     os.environ['PATHX'] = "fooness"
> 
>     os.system("printenv")
> 
> 
> Now, typing "make" should print an environment in which /some/junk is
> prepended to PATH, right? Wrong!
> 
>     milhouse% make | egrep '^PATH'
>     PATH=/home/stodghil/bib/bin:...
>     PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>     PATHX=fooness
> 
> What gives? I have no idea, but I discovered that overriding 
> Make's SHELL
> variable seems to fix the problem. First, here is what Make's 
> SHELL variable
> is initially set to
> 
>     milhouse% make other
>     echo sh.exe
>     sh.exe
> 
> I tried setting SHELL to /bin/sh, /bin/bash, bash.exe, and 
> sh.exe. Of the
> four, the first three work and the last fails.
> 
>     milhouse% make SHELL=/bin/sh | egrep '^PATH'
>     PATH=/some/junk:/home/stodghil/bib/bin:...
>     PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>     PATHX=fooness
> 
>     milhouse% make SHELL=/bin/bash | egrep '^PATH'
>     PATH=/some/junk:/home/stodghil/bib/bin:...
>     PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>     PATHX=fooness
> 
>     milhouse% make SHELL=bash.exe | egrep '^PATH'
>     PATH=/some/junk:/home/stodghil/bib/bin:...
>     PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>     PATHX=fooness
> 
>     milhouse% make SHELL=sh.exe | egrep '^PATH'
>     PATH=/home/stodghil/bib/bin:...
>     PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
>     PATHX=fooness
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> ----
> Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>
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