w32 gmake: can't echo long strings (fwd)

[Ted Phares]

  (cc'd to gnu.utils.bug)

Hi,

Using GNU make version 3.79.1 under win32:

I notice that gmake chokes if a rule includes a command that attempts
to echo a string > 94 characters long.  For example, if my makefile
looks like

  MAKESHELL=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe

  FOO = 0---------1---------2---------3--------\
  4---------5---------6---------7---------8---------9-----

  .PHONY: fooout
  fooout:
        @echo Im about to die
        @echo $(FOO)

I get the following result when I try to invoke it:

  G:\devel\dsp\axis>gmake -ffoo.mak
  Im about to die
  gmake.exe: *** [fooout] Error 11

Is this a known issue?

thanks,

-ted