From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Make & Bash bugs/questions 21 Oct 1997 23:44:06 -0700 Message-ID: <01BCDED5.47C822B0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "'GNU-Win32'" , "'Brendan Simon'" Brendan Simon wrote: > When DJGPP Make tried to make the V libaryr, it had an error message > that > indicated it had run out of command line space (ie. did not recognise > characters > after about the 120th on the command line). Yet if I typed in the > entire ar > command manually, it worked OK. I even tried using Bash but had the > same > result. > > Is this command line limitation something to do with DJGPP ?? DJGPP's make is a _dos_ program. Dos limit for command line length is 128 chars. > Should/would GNU-Win32 Make fix this problem (assuming that it worked > for previous problem) Win32 have no limit for command line length. > I would really love to use Bash but it is SOOOOOOO slow. I run linux on > a > 486 DX2/66 with lots of windows open. Bash and other shells run faster > on this > machine than they do on my Pentium 133 running Win95. New process creation is very slow on win32. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".