Re: Response to Jan Jacobs' "Problem using make in Win2k command line"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Roger Gill" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:28:42 -0400
> 
> I get errors using make, too, and it works fine when I cut and paste the
> commands to the command line.  The problem is not limited to building
> new variables from multiple variables; however, I've tried so much
> lately I can't remember exactly what happened when.  I have two versions
> of GNU make:
> 
>     3.79.1 "Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp"
>     3.79.1 "Built for i686-pc-cygwin"
> 
> The latter has a "--win32" switch that fixes some of those problems.  By
> the way "make -v" will tell you the version.

Now that I've seen the original problem description (thanks, Roger!),
I think I know the reason: the DJGPP port of Make cannot pass long
command lines to non-DJGPP programs.  And javac is not a DJGPP port of
the Java compiler, I'm guessing.

A solution is to use a native WIndows port of Make.