[CMake] Strange things happening with mingw

[William A. Hoffman]

At 05:01 PM 12/19/2005, Sylvain PRAT wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've just encountered a few problems running the last version of CMake
>2.2.3 with MinGW. I have the last version of MinGW, and MSYS installed
>or not I have quite the same issues. In fact, when I run the GUI app and
>try to generate some unix makefiles, I have a crash in make.exe. In
>fact, make is called like this: 
>Path/to/make/make.exe cmTryCompileExec
>
>Make.exe seems to miss a specific makefile. The odd thing is that when I
>run cmake from the command line, everything run fine. There should be a
>problem in my local configuration but I have no idea where to start
>looking for. I'm quite sure I've already successfully run cmake in mingw
>environment, but I just can't figure out my problem now.
>
>If anyone could help me ;)

If you run CMakeSetup from an Msys shell, it works.  There is an odd problem
with cmake and msys right now.  If you run CMakeSetup from the start menu,
it is not able to run the make.exe from msys for some reason.  

-Bill