[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Response to Jan Jacobs' "Problem using make in Win2k command line"
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Response to Jan Jacobs' "Problem using make in Win2k command line" |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:34:57 +0200 |
> 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.