id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1865	Allow more windows environments with git to work correctly with build process	ronaldws		"Parrot now uses git for source control requiring windows users to install git for development work.  The README_win32.pod file notes that msys git is one source but I have successfully installed git for Cygwin and used Cygwin git from the Windows cmd prompt to build parrot.  As noted in README_win32.pod having the Msys/bin folder on the path confuses mingw32-make about the command shell by putting sh.exe on the path and putting the Cygwin bin directory on the path has the same problem.  There is a more user friendly solution than requiring users to keep these bin directories off the path.

Adding the command[[BR]]
SHELL = cmd[[BR]]
to the makefile will tell mingw32-make to use the Windows cmd shell and the developer need no longer worry about the presence of sh.exe on their path.

The attached patch adds the ""SHELL = cmd"" line conditionally for win32 builds.  While the patch has not been fully tested with the Visual C++ and nmake environment, it has been partially tested with nmake and nmake seems to quietly ignore the added line.

There is an older, related ticket for rakudo, [http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78214 RT 78214]."	cage	closed	normal	2.11	build	2.10.0	medium	fixed