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

[Ted Phares]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Greg Chicares wrote:

> Ted Phares wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Greg Chicares wrote:
> >
> > > Ted Phares wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
...
> I've seen several different win32 ports of make-3.79.1
> released as prebuilt .exe's; this one is apparently either
>   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/make-3.79.1-20010722.tar.gz
> or
>   
> ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/porters/Mikey/make377-ming.tar.bz2
> which you can confirm by matching the md5sum
>   C:\tmp\ted>md5sum \usr\bin\make.exe
>   f97b4a805d7ec4c63ad829c822c4c42b  \\usr\\bin\\make.exe
...

Further poking around on the 'net revealed that the port I was using was
intended for MS-DOS.  D'oh!

The port you suggest above works great.  Thanks for your help.

-ted