RE: Command line length on Win2000

[Geoffrey Tam]

Here are the answers to your questions:
- make was downloaded many, many years ago, so I *think* it was a DOS build.
- the COMSPEC environment variable points to CMD.EXE

Do you know where I can get the latest version of gmake in executable form?
Unfortunately, I don't have enough time in the day to build it myself. I
will need it to work in both Win98 and Win2000 as some machines run Win98
and others run Win2000. I'd prefer 1 executable, but if I need 2
executables, so be it.

Your help is much appreciated.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shah Bijal [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Geoffrey Tam; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> 
> This doesn't sound right.... I'm running win2k and can get 
> command lines of well over 2000 characters.
> 
> Did you build your make or download it? Is it actually a DOS 
> build of make or a Windows 2000 build?
> 
> Also, check COMSPEC and SHELL environment/make variables to 
> see if they are pointing to CMD.EXE.
> I would upgrade to the latest gmake too - 3.76.1 quite old in 
> the scheme of things!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Tam [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 12 May 2003 17:14
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> I am running into command line length problems on Win2000 when running
> gmake. On Win98, I used command.com as my shell, and could 
> use roughly 120
> characters in my make commands. On Win2000, this has been 
> reduced to about
> 96 characters. Are there any shells out there that will 
> greatly expand from
> 120 the number of characters I can use in my make commands? I 
> am currently
> running version 3.76.1 of the make utility.
> 
> I have also noticed that hand typing in the make commands 
> that don't work
> from make works on Win2000.
> 
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