Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 17:11:39 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument In-Reply-To: <427BE5FE.7020000@fabeljet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <427BE5FE.7020000@fabeljet.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j480BoI6029569 On 5/6/05, Jørgen Havsberg Seland wrote: > This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the > windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the > executable using the -X switch. For instance, use I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few times. Any problem with replacing this ancient entry about MAKE_MODE (which is covered in the User's Guide)? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC93 > OBTW: Is there an official or semi-official cygwin Wiki where one may > post these things? Not that I know of. There used to be an unofficial one on someone's student webspace but it's dead. See this thread for good reasons there's not one on cygwin.com: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00993.html Google's pretty good at picking up terms straight from the mailing list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/