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In article <b5fbj0$ois$1@panix2.panix.com>, I wrote:
> when I run M-X compile, the shell that's spawned to run make doesn't 
> inherit my environment.  It doesn't seem to read my .cshrc file 
> either.

I got it figured out.  The .cshrc file was checking to see if the shell 
emacs spawned was an interactive shell, if if not, would exit before 
setting the environment up properly.  No clue what the guy who wrote the 
.cshrc was thinking when he did this.