From: bjepson AT ids DOT net ("Brian C. Jepson") Subject: Re: make.exe crashes under Windows 95 20 Dec 1996 12:28:32 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199612201154.LAA05153@gizmo.lut.ac.uk> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Martin Hamilton wrote: > "Brian C. Jepson" writes: > > | However, when I invoke make, even without a Makefile present, it > | crashes with a random error (GPF the last time), usually in make > | (according to the error message, when you click on the details button). > > I had this too (on my Windows 95 laptop with B17.1), and managed to > make it go away by rebuilding make from source with a > > #define NO_FLOAT > > in its config.h > Interesting. Is this related to the coprocessor? I'm using a Compaq Aero, which is a 486 with no math coprocessor. [...] > If you want to try my make out, you can grab a copy from: > > > > You can tell when you're running this one because it says "blah blah > blah" from time to time :-) > [...] That's great - I'm definitely going to grab this. I appreciate your making this available. Regards, Brian Jepson * (bjepson AT ids DOT net) * http://www.ids.net/~bjepson Int(ra|er)net Database Developer, Author, Crypto-Fluxologist Non-Prophet Arts Technology Flux: http://www.ids.net/~as220 WWW/Database/NT,Java/Database: http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/books - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".