Re: Problems with GNU make in Windows 7 (64-bit)

[John Graham-Cumming]

Can you provide two things:

1. A minimal Makefile that exhibits the problem

2. Your make version number; is this a native build or part of CYGWIN?

John.

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 17:36, Rob Juergens <address@hidden> wrote:
> In Windows 7 on a 64-bit machine, the development system (MS Visual Studio)
> is, by default, installed into a directory named “Program Files (x86)”.
> Apparently, the present of the “(x86)” in the name is causing the variable
> expansion routines to recurse forever.
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> In my makefile, I have the line:
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> x86 := $(strip $(shell ls -d "$(SystemDrive)/Program Files (x86)" 2>nul))
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> Sometimes, make just crashes (with  a stack overflow from recursive calls),
> and other times, it bails with the message “_main: memory allocation error
> during startup” (which is a Windoze error message).
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> Please let me know if there is anything more I can provide or do for you in
> this area.  Our build process uses GNU make on all platforms (including
> Windoze), and until we can solve this issue we are stuck in a 32-bit XP
> environment.
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> Thanks,
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> Rob Juergens
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> (909) 754-5106
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