Re: make (e=267): The directory name is invalid.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:45:15 +0530
> From: Ashish Soni <address@hidden>
> 
> I am getting below error while compiling c source using make 3.79.1.

This is a very old version of Make.  The latest one is 4.1.

> Creating temporary batch file X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat
> [exec] cl.exe SettingtestRephtasks.cpp /nologo /ML /W3 /GX /O2 /D "WIN32" /D
> "NDEBUG" /D "_CONSOLE" /D "_MBCS" /FD /c /Fd"X:\testRep\gen/monitoring/w2k\\"
> /Fo"X:\testRep\gen/monitoring/w2k/SettingtestRephtasks.obj" 
> [exec] CreateProcess
> (X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat,X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat,...)
> [exec] Putting child 0x008aac28
> (X:\testRep\gen/monitoring/w2k/SettingtestRephtasks.obj) PID 9091960 on the
> chain.
> [exec] Live child 0x008aac28
> (X:\testRep\gen/monitoring/w2k/SettingtestRephtasks.obj) PID 9091960 
> [exec] Reaping losing child 0x008aac28 PID 9091960 
> [exec] Cleaning up temp batch file
> X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat
> [exec] process_begin: CreateProcess
> (X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat,
> X:\testRep\gen\tmp\w2k\makeTemp\make68402.bat, ...) failed.
> [exec] Removing child 0x008aac28 PID 9091960 from chain.
> [exec] make (e=267): The directory name is invalid.
> [exec] 
> 
> Any help/clue !!!

The only clue I can give you is that error 267 is the exit code of the
batch file created by Make to run the compilation command.  I have no
idea why it exited with that code, and I have no way of testing that,
since I don't have a binary of such an old version of Make.

Can you upgrade to a newer version?