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On 24/07/2012 18:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
 >
> You must be running a non-cygwin make.
>
> That said, however, make does not deal well with spaces in file
> specifications.  If something is actually parsing a PATH environment
> variable then it could cause problems.
>

You're right, I know what caused the problem, a window's system path 
(not user's path) that includes the make.exe

c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Symbian\tools\make.exe

Since  there wasn't /usr/local/bin/make or /usr/bin/make just searched 
on paths imported from windows.



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