Re: More diagnostics for the W32 build

[David Abrahams]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Sun,  5 Jun 2005 13:38:00 +0100
>> From: address@hidden
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Redirecting stderr works on COMMAND.COM as far as I recall.
>
> No, it doesn't.  "foo 2>bar" is interpreted as `foo' called with an
> argument `2' and its stdout redirected to `bar'.  If you do that with
> GCC, it complains about a non-existing file `2'.
>
>> I'm not sure about 2>&1 though.
>
> Definitely doesn't work, 

That's strange; I use it all the time on Windows XP.  Seems to work
just fine (?)

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