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RE: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote:

> Now I'm getting to understand the whole making process. So I could
> decrease the number of things that are in that long line, so that it is
> much shorter. And it runs O.K.
>
> So now I am sure that it must be a bug with make.
>
> Bert

Most likely.  It's usually a good idea to provide a simple testcase that
reproduces the problem.  Here's one that did it for me (with the output):

$ perl -e 'print "all:;\t\@true && \\\n"; foreach $i (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print "\ttrue\n";' | make -f -
make: *** [all] Error 255
$

Hope this helps,
	Igor
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