Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:36:43 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: dcasale AT my-deja DOT com
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:01:23 GMT
>
> > > After some code changes and after installing some additional
> > > packages for DJGPP, I tried compiling the latest version of my
> > > compression program in RHIDE only to receive a "Command line too
> > > long" error.
> > >
> > > What might cause this?
> >
> > I'm guessing that some package you installed changed PATH, so now some
> > of the programs invoked by RHIDE doesn't support the special way of
> > passing long command lines between DJGPP programs.  (For details about
> > this special way, see section 16.4 of the FAQ.)  Section 16.6 of the
> > FAQ mentions, near its end, possible problems like that.
> 
> Interesting.  Especially since this problem cropped up when using
> _RHIDE_, not calling MAKE directly.

The problem can appear whenever any DJGPP program calls any other
program.  It is not limited to RHIDE.

> Well, the offender was a program which modified my AUTOEXEC.BAT by
> adding a bunch of extra, unneccessary environment variables.  With
> these extra environment variables loaded, RHIDE refused to run, even
> when attempting to compile code that had successfully compiled before.

Weird.  Can you tell what variables were those, and what their values
were?

> I don't quite understand why this is a problem, unless RHIDE was
> attempting to set an environment variable and failing because of lack
> of room.

This cannot happen, unless the total size of the environment was
approaching 16KB.