From: mcastle AT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Subject: Re: GNU Make
To: FESTEVES AT ptearn DOT umr DOT edu (Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves)
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 15:08:14 CST
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

The recompiled version did not solve the problem of the my machine hanging.
(I think the recompiliation just added a few things such as gcc, ar, ld,
etc to the list on known programs that handles the gnu swaplib method of
passing long command lines through environment variables).

I _appear_ to have solved the problem on my machine, however.  I installed
a new hard-drive.  

Actually, I would like to test to see if my old hard drive was causing some
sort of bizarre hardware conflict (I really doubt it), but in the process of
moving it around to make room for my new hd, I managed to kill it (makes a 
real neat grinding sound now).  What I'm wondering though, is if 
re-installing everything helped out. 

You might try defragmenting you disk using norton utilities or pc-tools
(there are a few pd/shareware disk optimization utilities on simtel-20
et al).  Another suggestion might be to try to repartion you drives to
all be under 32Mb.  I noticed that swaplib uses some FCB calls (though
I don't think the calls do any disk access, they get get some sort of
information), but that might be causing some problems. I'm currently 
running a large partition (>130M) with no problem, so that may not be
the cause either.  

Anyone else do anything physical to their machine to get gnu-make to work?

mrc