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

[Ted Phares]

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.
>