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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:34:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote:
> 
> > > $ 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
> >
> > Yes, that fails from 1990.
> >
> > Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted?
> 
> Try it on Linux.  If it works there, post it to the Cygwin list (i.e.,
> here) with words to that effect.  If it doesn't work on Linux either, post
> it to some general make bugs list -- I'm sure there is one; look at the
> homepage for GNU make.

"make bug"?  I'm getting this on Linux:

make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make: *** [all] Error 127

Doesn't look like a bug at all to me.

Corinna

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