On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > I've got a C++ tree that is running under Fedora 14, Fedora 16, and Cygwin. > Everything works. > > Tonight, I needed to test something and was on my Windows box, so I did a > cut-and-paste operation which gave me a directory of "Copy of myStuff". I > did a make and it worked, but I am seeing a message about "basename: extra > operand 'myStuff'. > > I figured out that the spaces in the MS "Copy of myStuff" were the problem > and was able to rename w/o spaces and move forward.
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 > But I would like to ask if anyone knows what in "make" uses the basename > command so I can try to either massage the Makefile to deal with it or throw > a more meaningful error (as in "your directory has spaces in it and there > will be complaints")? > > 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 > > Thanks in advance, > Paul > > ps: I haven't included all the details of cygcheck as I think the issue is > on my end once I have an idea of why basename is being called -- will gladly > provide if it helps > > -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
