[lazarus] Unrelated to current discussion, but soon to be important...

[Jeffrey A. Wormsley]

I am doing what work I can under Win32 (for a little while longer, just got
my RH6 CD) and I run into this problem constantly...

The command lines built by the make files frequently exceed the command
line length limit for win32.  The worst offender so far is the hello_world
test app.  Example:

ppc386.exe -Twin32   -Fue:/pp/source/rtl/win32 -Fue:/pp/source/units/win32
-Fu..
/fcl/win32 -Fu../rtl -Fu../gtk -Fu../lazarus -FE.  -di386 hello_world.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 0.99.13 [1999/07/16] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-98 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Win32 for i386
Compiling h
Fatal: Can't open file h
make.exe: *** [hello_world.exe] Error 1

Notice the "Compiling h" line.  The "ello_world.pp" part is completely
clipped off.  

Is there anything that can be done about this?

Jeff.