Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D2A9D71.E2318ECE@csksoftware.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 10:23:13 +0200 From: "Johan Bezem" Reply-To: CygWin Mailing List Organization: CSK Software AG X-Accept-Language: en,de,nl,el,fr,af,es,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Chang Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: The "make" command and file handle problem References: <200207090501.g6951Mo14832@etp1.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010407 Hi, Andrew Chang wrote: > > On cygwin1.3.12-1, I am running a multi-level makefile. > For some reason the top level make seems corrupt the file handle > of the its sub-process. (redirected i/o no longer works in the sub-process). > Note that my top level makefile is a very complex makefile, it probably > works fine if you have a simple makefile. > Fortunately, I stumble across a workaround; It turns out if you spawn > the lower level make via the DOS shell, the problem goes away. > > e.g. > > low_level_target: > cd sub_dir && cmd /c make low_level_stuff; > > Hope this will save someone sometime... Without further data as to used versions, this will hardly help anyone. I'm using a "very complex makefile" (whatever that is) on multiple directory levels under bash, and I have no problems... How did you deduce that make is corrupting a file handle? Regards,, Johan Bezem CSK Software AG -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/