Re: make: Interrupt/Exception caught

[Raleigh Rinehart]

On 1/21/2011 6:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:04:56 -0600
> > From: raleigh rinehart<address@hidden>
> >
> > > I am reworking some makefiles for our build system and getting a rather
> > > unusual error. During a copy cmd this error is occurring (taken from
> > > make with –d option)
> > >
> > > Unhandled exception filter called from program make
> > > ExceptionCode = c0000005
> > > ExceptionFlags = 0
> > > ExceptionAddress = 100143c0
> > > Access violation: write operation at address 2e2e2061
> > [...]
> > The version of Make is GNU Make (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q3-68) 3.81, it
> > come from our tools package vendor, Code Sourcery.  Which, of course, is
> > the 'lite' unsupported version.
> Can you try using the latest release of Make, v3.82?  There were a
> couple of bugs in Make 3.81 on Windows that caused similar crashes,
> they are fixed in 3.82.  You should be able to find a precompiled
> binary of Make 3.82 on the MinGW site, or you could build it yourself,
> if you have MinGW installed.  Building Make on Windows doesn't require
> anything but a working compiler and Binutils installation, see
> README.W32 in the source tarball for instructions.
>
> If using Make 3.82 is not an option, try playing with the environment
> variables that are in effect when Make runs, some of the bugs I
> mention above were related to looking up and processing environment
> variables.
Thanks for your suggestions Eli.  It may be possible to upgrade to 3.82, 
but that will take some time and I'm pressed to come up with a solution 
asap.

I will check out the Environment variables and see if anything turns up 
there.  However, after some more tests it seems that the problem is 
related  to command line parameter length limits.  We are using just the 
plain windows cmd.exe for our shell (on XP and 2003).  If I divide the 
$(libraries) list into smaller chunks then it is okay.  Although it is 
somewhat strange that I get this error since the length of the cmd is 
5329, well short of the supposed 8191 limit for cmd.exe on xp.  I 
suppose it could just be a bug in 3.81.

Now the problem is how to write a macro to split a list into multiple 
smaller lists to exec the cmd on.  I already know I'm going to have the 
same issue in other parts on the makefile (linking for example).  Any 
ideas on this?
The tricky part is the syntax must be valid for both gnu make and 
Electric Cloud's Emake.

thanks,
-raleigh