[Swarm-Support] Compilation issue: "make: *** wait: Invalid argument. Stop. "

[Eliezer Gurarie]

hello,

I'm a newcomer to Swarm and am experiencing a quirk in compilation.

when I try to compile anything (my programs or simpleSwarmBug from the 
tutorial or any of the demo programs) I invariably get the warning message:

make: *** wait: Invalid argument.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** wait: No children.  Stop.

and the compilation terminates.   an ".o" file still gets made each time 
- so i basically have to type "make" as many times as i have ".m" files 
until the ".exe" is made - and then the programs work just fine.  it can 
be (has been) worked around - but its a nuisance. 

I am using Swarm v. 2.1 with Windows 98.  several months ago, when I was 
learning Swarm on a Windows NT machine, I did not have this problem.

this problem has come up in the past (in the support archives) but the 
solution involved downloading   
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/2.1-fixes which doesn't seem 
to exist anymore - and also doesn't explain what's going on. 

as a corrolary:   is there an easy way to make a batch-like file inside 
of this faux-unix terminal Swarm gives you to work in?  I was trying to 
make one that would just do "make" the necessary amount of times - but 
couldn't get anything to work. 

thanks,
elie

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Eliezer Gurarie
Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington