On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:40:36PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > "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
>>
>> Urp. What I meant was "if it fails in the same way on Linux". The above
>> looks like a legitimate error message. FWIW, I just tried it on a RedHat
>> 7.3 machine, and I'm getting the same error as Corinna. Now that you
>> mention it, it could be that Cygwin's /bin/sh is exiting with status 255
>> on an overlong argument list, and this has nothing to do with make per
>> se... Although all of
>>
>> for sh in /bin/sh /bin/ksh /bin/bash /bin/tcsh; do
>> perl -e 'print "all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] && echo \$\$SHELL && \\\n"; foreach $i
>> (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print "\techo && true\n";' | make -f
>> - SHELL=$sh
>> done
>>
>> printed "make: *** [all] Error 255", so I doubt it's a specific shell's
>> behavior... This is obviously Cygwin-specific, though.
>
>Why so complicated?
>
>A simple strace shows that the native Windows call CreateProcess() fails
>with error 87.
>
>$ net helpmsg 87
>The parameter is incorrect.
>
>Another simple look into MSDN for the CreateProcess call reveals:
>
> lpCommandLine
> [in, out] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the
> command line to execute. The maximum length of this string is 32K
> characters.
How come cygwin isn't setting an errno appropriately, then? Shouldn't
it be reflected by make?
In any event, this might help:
mount -f -X c:/cygwin/bin /bin
mount -f -x c:/cygwin/bin/strace.exe /bin/strace.exe
mount -f -x c:/cygwin/bin/cygcheck.exe /bin/cygcheck.exe
since telling cygwin that the files are all cygwin-aware should make cygwin
bypass the standard windows command line stuff.
cgf
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