Re: command line limit in mingw-make

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:04:12 +0100
> From: Joe Burmeister <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> >>   From what you just told me, I don't see why this would trigger a
> >> intermediate batch file like this.
> > I'm guessing those are the quotes.
> that will be why it's pretty much everything. No doubt they are added 
> for spaces safety.
> 
> A quick test with CreateProcess seams to show it's not necessary for 
> this to trigger an intermediate batch file.

Probably.  Can you try building make.exe with MinGW, after removing
the " character from sh_chars_dos[] defined on job.c under WINDOWS32?

(Building a MinGW Make requires to run the build_w32.bat batch file;
see the file README.W32 for instructions.)