Re: GNU make 4.2 (and 4.2.1) failing due to length of command-line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Stahl <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:58:41 +0200
> 
> On 22.06.2016 00:53, Adrian Muresan wrote:
> > On GNU make 3.81, it works fine. But on make 4.2 and 4.2.1, I get an error:
> > 
> > cp: target `C' is not a directory
> > 
> > The problem appears to be the length of the command. If I delete some
> > JSON files, it works fine.
> 
> FWIW i've noticed that with make 4.0/4.1 built for Win32, invoking the
> Cygwin bash shell as C:/cygwin/bin/sh.exe, the command lines are
> silently truncated at ~8K characters - this did not happen when we used
> GNU make 3.82 built for Cygwin.

You are talking about the Cygwin build of Make, yes?  That's a
different build from the one in the OP's report.

And yes, the native Windows build of Make supports command lines up to
32K bytes, except when it invokes cmd.exe, which itself is limited to
4K bytes.