Re: Limitation compared to Cygwin make

[Offner, Georg]

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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
To: "Offner, Georg" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: Limitation compared to Cygwin make


> > From: "Offner, Georg" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:58:47 +0100
> >
> > OBJ_DIR =
> > OUTPATH1/OUTPATH12/OUTPATH13/OUTPATH14/OUTPATH15/OUTPATH6/OUTPATH61/OUTPATH62/OUTPATH63/OUTPATH64/OUTPATH65/OUTPATH66/OUTPATH67/OUTPATH68/OUTPATH1/OUTPATH12/OUTPATH13/OUTPATH14
> >
> >
> > local_lib = $(OBJ_DIR)local.lib
> >
> > all: $(local_lib)
>
> If these are your file names, I think I know why they don't work.  For
> obscure histerical reasons, the native Windows port of Make uses an
> obsolete API to look for executable files.  That obsolete API only
> supports file names up to 128 characters long.  Can you try shortening
> your OBJ_DIR path to less than 128 characters and see if it starts
> working then?  Note that you append local.lib to the path, so you
> should shorten OBJ_DIR so that the resulting file name does not exceed
> 128 characters.
>
> It is on my todo to fix this by switching to a more modern API for the
> next release of Make.
>
> If my guess is correct, it would also explain why the Cygwin port is
> not hit by the problem: it doesn't use the code which calls the
> obsolete API.
>
> If the above does not explain the failure (i.e. the example makefile
> does not work even with file names shorter than 128 characters),
> perhaps you could step with a debugger into the function
> process_begin, which reports the failure you posted, and see why it
> fails.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks in advance for your help in
> investigating this problem.
>
> P.S.  I see that you also reported a similar problem back in May.

Hi,

one more piece of investigation:
The failure is not due to a limitation in file name length, everything works 
fine up to a file name length (including path) of 222 characters.
But now mystery begins: increasing the number of files you suddenly come to 
the point where it breaks, in my case with a file name length of about 212 
characters the limit was 61 files, the 62nd file broke make. And even more 
interesting: if you now decrease the file file or path length, it will work 
again until you increase the number of files again. Thus the limitation lies 
obviously in the combination of file name length and number of files. If I 
reduce the path/file name length to about 20 characters, it even works quite 
fine with my 5680 C files...

Maybe I find the time to do some debugging of proces_begin, but I'm no make 
source expert ;-).

Regards,
Georg