Re: make cannot handle prerequisites that contain a colon

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:22:04 +0200
> From: "Holleman, Bas" <address@hidden>
> 
> Yes, that is true. On Windows, the PATH environment variable can have
> more than 256 characters. And I think it is the problem and something
> like this happens if PATH is to long: gmake can not handle so much
> characters and it reads only a part of the PATH variable. Because of
> this, gmake can not find some of the programs it needs and it generates
> bad commands, which Windows (?) handles by displaying messages like
> "begin_process: CreateProcess((null),...".

I don't see any such limitations in gmake.  If you can show an example
of a Makefile that fails because of a long PATH, please do, and I will
try to investigate.