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'.
That appears to be an error message from /usr/bin/basename GNU make has a built-in function $(basename ...) but that doesn't appear to have such an error message. > I figured out that the spaces in the MS "Copy of myStuff" were the problem > and was able to rename w/o spaces and move forward. > > But I would like to ask if anyone knows what in "make" uses the basename > command so I can try to either massage the Makefile to deal with it or throw > a more meaningful error (as in "your directory has spaces in it and there > will be complaints")? Read your makefile. One of the actions is probably using basename. Alas, /usr/bin/basename has no way of knowing that it was invoked from make; you can't get "more meaningful errors". Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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