question on Cygwin's version of make

Paul Allen Newell pnewell@cs.cmu.edu
Thu Mar 1 07:43:00 GMT 2012


Marco:

Thanks for reply, my comments inline

On 2/29/2012 11:23 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>
> names with spaces are always a problem for a lot of unix/cygwin
> program, so my suggestion
> is to rename the directory.
> Please also note that copy&paste will likely mess your file permission

Yes, I solved the problem by removing spaces. I always create 
directories and files without spaces. but a cut-and-paste in Windows 
doesn't respect such. I haven't seen any permissions problems on a 
cut-and-paste .. the only issue I see is when I port back to Fedora and 
have a script to get rid of everything being an executable.

I am just hoping that I can understand where basename is executed so I 
can flag the problem. It ain't a show-stopper, but it would be nice to 
just do a cut-and-paste followed by a make in the new directory which 
should tell me "you got spaces".
>>
>> I also noticed that if I run "make>&  make.out" that the message is printed
>> to the terminal and is not in make.out. What am I missing to capture all
>> output in make.out?
> I like this way
>
> make&2>1  |tee make.out
>
> "&2>1"  redirect the error message to the std output
>

Okay ... interesting ... can I beg a bit more of an explanation as I 
don't understand the difference between ">&" and "&2>1" (bash stuff is 
an an area that I am maybe "less than a newbie")

Thanks,
Paul

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