RE: Command line length on Win2000

[Shah Bijal]

You'll always have limitations running Win9x and NT based systems - its 
advisable to upgrade if you can. Win 98 will still use COMMAND.COM with all its 
problems. It sounds as though you might be better off using one of the many 
UNIX commands under windows systems such as cygwin or MINGW - these will allow 
you to use the "sh" shell or similiar which don't have as bad a set of command 
line limitations as DOS/WinNT.

That said, you can download the source code from the GNU website and if you 
have visual C++ 6.0, it doesn't take any time to compile at all - there is a 
batch file provided. I would encourage this as it does allow you the get to 
grips with make. I don't think the Win2000 exe will work under Win 98 but I'm 
not sure.

Alternatively, there are implementations precompiled downloadable from cygwin 
or MINGW - "google" it and you'll find what you need, though you might find 
they are linked to a larger environment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Tam [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 12 May 2003 18:06
To: Shah Bijal; address@hidden
Subject: RE: Command line length on Win2000


Here are the answers to your questions:
- make was downloaded many, many years ago, so I *think* it was a DOS build.
- the COMSPEC environment variable points to CMD.EXE

Do you know where I can get the latest version of gmake in executable form?
Unfortunately, I don't have enough time in the day to build it myself. I
will need it to work in both Win98 and Win2000 as some machines run Win98
and others run Win2000. I'd prefer 1 executable, but if I need 2
executables, so be it.

Your help is much appreciated.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shah Bijal [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Geoffrey Tam; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> 
> This doesn't sound right.... I'm running win2k and can get 
> command lines of well over 2000 characters.
> 
> Did you build your make or download it? Is it actually a DOS 
> build of make or a Windows 2000 build?
> 
> Also, check COMSPEC and SHELL environment/make variables to 
> see if they are pointing to CMD.EXE.
> I would upgrade to the latest gmake too - 3.76.1 quite old in 
> the scheme of things!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Tam [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 12 May 2003 17:14
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> I am running into command line length problems on Win2000 when running
> gmake. On Win98, I used command.com as my shell, and could 
> use roughly 120
> characters in my make commands. On Win2000, this has been 
> reduced to about
> 96 characters. Are there any shells out there that will 
> greatly expand from
> 120 the number of characters I can use in my make commands? I 
> am currently
> running version 3.76.1 of the make utility.
> 
> I have also noticed that hand typing in the make commands 
> that don't work
> from make works on Win2000.
> 
> 
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