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Date: | Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:06:13 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> |
cc: | Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>, |
DJGPP newsgroup <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> | |
Subject: | Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs |
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Charles Sandmann wrote: > > I've seen the "cannot make pipes for command substitution" error before. > > Restarting the make process seemed to do the trick each time (on Windows 98 > > 'SE), so it seemed more like an intermittent failure to me. Which OS were you > > building on? > > I'm believe it was Windows 2000. I may have only seen the error once > and then gave up. Sounds like Windows (or DJGPP) leaks some resources. The error message comes from the shell's `foo bar` constructs, which require files to be open and a subprogram to be run. If some resources required for this are missing, this will fail.
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