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:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] && \\\n"; foreach $i (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print "\ttrue\n";' | make -f - make: *** [all] Error 255 $ Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/