[lazarus] Unrelated to current discussion, but soon to beimportant...

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote:

> guess we do need to look at this..
> 

You are not the first to notice this problem.

Luckily, the solution is simple:
If you use the mingw32 version of make.exe, there is no problem, since it can
handle command-lines of more than 128 characters.

Michael.

> Cliff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey A. Wormsley <daworm at cdc.net>
> To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:54 PM
> Subject: [lazarus] Unrelated to current discussion, but soon to be
> important...
> 
> 
> >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.
> >
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