Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: shell-2.enteract.com: fcy set sender to fred@ontosys.com using -f Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:18:22 -0500 From: Fred Yankowski To: "Karr, David" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Execute "strace" on an executable in GNU make? Message-ID: <20010501091821.A57694@enteract.com> References: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB4359@exchanger.cacheflow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB4359@exchanger.cacheflow.com>; from david.karr@cacheflow.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:22:13PM -0700 A spurious environment variable value might cause such a problem. Check the value of SHELL in particular. You might try whittling down your environment to a bare minimum -- perhaps just PATH and HOME -- as a quick check. On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:22:13PM -0700, Karr, David wrote: > Sigh. Yes, that is the case. Ok, so "strace" won't help me. Is there any > other information I can gather on this situation? It just will not run from > within Make, no matter how I coerce it. It always fails immediately with > "Invalid Argument", even before getting to "main". -- Fred Yankowski fred@OntoSys.com tel: +1.630.879.1312 Principal Consultant www.OntoSys.com fax: +1.630.879.1370 OntoSys, Inc 38W242 Deerpath Rd, Batavia, IL 60510, USA -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple