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Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd)
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Ted Phares |
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Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd) |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:28:00 -0700 (PDT) |
Eli,
Thanks. I switched to the cygwin gmake port about a week ago. It fixed
that problem, though it seems to have its own pathologies (e.g., it
ignores the setting of the MAKESHELL envar).
-ted
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Ted Phares wrote:
>
> > g:\devel\dsp\axis>gmake -version
> > GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> > Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp
>
> You are using a DJGPP port of GNU Make. That port is expected to have
> the problems you mentioned, since the underlying C library used to link
> the binary lacks the ability to pass commands longer than 126 characters
> to the Windows shell. (The next version of the library has that feature
> added to it.)
>
> You could use the DJGPP program djecho instead of the shell's echo to
> work around this. Or simply switch to a native Windows port of Make.
>
- w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Ted Phares, 2002/09/11
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Greg Chicares, 2002/09/12
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Ted Phares, 2002/09/12
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Greg Chicares, 2002/09/12
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Ted Phares, 2002/09/12
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/19
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd),
Ted Phares <=
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/20
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Ted Phares, 2002/09/20
- Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Ted Phares, 2002/09/12
Re: w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd), Earnie Boyd, 2002/09/12