Message-ID: <01BD5966.1786D310.jasonb@gfsmortgage.com>
From: Jason A Bennett <jasonb AT gfsmortgage DOT com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Jason A Bennett
	 <jasonb AT gfsmortgage DOT com>
Cc: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Make error
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:52:44 -0600
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On Wednesday, March 25, 1998 8:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii [SMTP:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il] 
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jason A Bennett wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason make would try to run the compiler (cl) and exit with a
> > -1
> > error? It seems the compiler isn't being excuted. I've tried defining 
SHELL,
> > to
> > no avail. This is under WinNT using DJGPP make.
>
> Please post the messages printed by Make and the shortest Makefile you
> can throw together which reproduces this behavior.

The one-line makefile:
CC = f:\msc\ax\cl

causes the error.

D:\pos5\intrface\du\src>make su_du
f:\msc\ax\cl     su_du.c   -o su_du
make.exe: *** [su_du] Error -1



> In general, I can think about several possible incompatibilities with cl
> (which is the Microsoft compiler, I assume), but it is hard to decide
> which one is the more probable without seeing some symptoms.  The first
> thing I would look at is the backslash-vs-forward slash issue.

It seems to run, then nothing. Gcc will shell (although it won't work, as the 
paths are set correctly), so that isn't the problem.

			jason

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Jason A Bennett -- Gallagher Financial Systems
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"And your Windows program requires HOW MUCH memory?"