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Re: make calls 'time' program bug
- To: Jeff Deifik <jdeifik at weasel dot com>
- Subject: Re: make calls 'time' program bug
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at sigma6 dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:07:59 -0400
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <3.0.5.32.19980909084257.00a289d0@pop.ni.net>
Are you using MAKE_MODE=unix? If not, make will spawn CMD.EXE (which
has a builtin time command) instead of /bin/sh.
Jeff Deifik wrote:
>
> I have a makefile that calls the time command.
> for example:
> time my_program
>
> The way it used to work with an early copy of beta-19 was to
> time how long it took to run my_program.
>
> I have now downloaded the latest coolview, and uname -a reports:
> WEASEL_IN_A_BOX:/d/j/util/test:510: uname -a
> CYGWIN32_NT WEASEL_IN_A_BOX 4.0 19.3 i586 unknown
>
> Now when I execute my makefile I get the following:
> (note sim is the real name of the program that I want to time,
> and WEASEL_IN_A_BOX is the name of my machine.)
>
> WEASEL_IN_A_BOX:/d/j/util/test:513: make test_simx
> rm -f simx*.out simx*.log
> time //d/j/bin/sim -g -p -m=90 simx0.in simx0.out simx0.log
> The system cannot accept the time entered.
> Enter the new time:
>
> I would assume that the time command being run is the windows-nt version,
> which tries to modify the system time, which isn't the unix-like time
> command.
>
> When I run the command line from bash, it times the command my_program.
>
> How do I fix this behavior?
>
> I have copied sh.exe to /usr . All my files are mounted in binary-mode.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff Deifik
> jdeifik@weasel.com
>
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