Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:41:16PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: >>I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not >>implemented on certain platforms. I googled a bit, and it seemed like >>it has something to do with having or not h

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul Smith wrote: > Make jobserver doesn't use named pipes, at least not on POSIX systems. > It does, however, require fully capable POSIX pipes, in particular ones > that are inherited by/shared across multiple processes and which can be > read from and written to by multiple processes simultaneo

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Bill Hoffman
Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not implemented on certain platforms. I googled a bit, and it seemed like it has something to do with having or not having named pipes. Perhaps some of the gnu

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:26 -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: > I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not > implemented on certain platforms. I googled a bit, and it seemed > like it has something to do with having or not having named pipes. > Perhaps some of the gnu make folks c

Re: make-trouble from a newb: To hell with shell

2008-07-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 08:05 -0700, Uffze wrote: > I don't have a clue why on some lines make starts the tools directly > (so they work), while on other lines the tools are started via the gnu > shell (which uses different paths than window and results in the fact > that they can't be found). I can

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Bill Hoffman
Christopher Faylor wrote: If there is a mingw jobserver issue, it sounds like a bug. Has it been filed? I think this is a known limitation, that the job server is not implemented on certain platforms. I googled a bit, and it seemed like it has something to do with having or not having nam

make-trouble from a newb: To hell with shell

2008-07-03 Thread Uffze
Hi, first of all: I am quite new to make, so please be patient. I am trying to port an existing gnu makefile from avr to dspic. I am using make (v 3.81, native w32 application; i am not using cygwin) from the Windows distribution of avr-gcc (WinAVR). make starts the compiler and linker without a

Re: make 3.81 and MS-DOS paths (e.g. C: or drive letter paths)

2008-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:36:25AM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:27:29PM -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote: >>>Thanks. And I understand the "no guarantee" issue, we ran into a >>>problem with find.exe too a while back. >>> >>>I also understand their poi