> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:22:04 +0200 > From: "Holleman, Bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yes, that is true. On Windows, the PATH environment variable can have > more than 256 characters. And I think it is the problem and something > like this happens if PATH is to long: gmake can not handle so much > characters and it reads only a part of the PATH variable. Because of > this, gmake can not find some of the programs it needs and it generates > bad commands, which Windows (?) handles by displaying messages like > "begin_process: CreateProcess((null),...".
I don't see any such limitations in gmake. If you can show an example of a Makefile that fails because of a long PATH, please do, and I will try to investigate. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
