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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:29:41 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Execute "strace" on an executable in GNU make?
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In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB4359@exchanger.cacheflow.com>; from david.karr@cacheflow.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:22:13PM -0700

Dunno.  Sorry.  I suspect that you are probably not running the program
that you think you're running.  Maybe specifying the full path in the
makefile would help.

Apologies if you've tried that.  I don't remember.  That is all that
I can think of.

cgf

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:22:13PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>Sigh.  Yes, that is the case.  Ok, so "strace" won't help me.  Is there any
>other information I can gather on this situation?  It just will not run from
>within Make, no matter how I coerce it.  It always fails immediately with
>"Invalid Argument", even before getting to "main".
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 5:14 PM
>To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
>Subject: Re: Execute "strace" on an executable in GNU make?
>
>
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>>I'm getting an unexplainable error (Invalid Argument) when I run a
>>particular executable, but only when I run it from "make".  The executable
>>is not a cygwin executable.  It runs fine when I run it from Bash or DOS,
>>just not from within Make.  I've tried changing the call from "<program>"
>to
>>"cmd /c <program>" and "/bin/sh.exe -c <program>", but both of those fail.
>>I tried putting a print statement at the top of "main" (It's a C program),
>>but it doesn't get there when it fails.
>>
>>Will running the executable from the Makefile with "strace" help me?  I'm
>>trying to figure out how to do this, but no matter what I specify with
>>"strace", I only get a zero length output file.  Other people here with
>>similar environments don't get this symptom.
>
>strace only works on programs which use the cygwin DLL.  IIRC, the
>program that you are attempting to execute is not a cygwin program.
>
>cgf
>
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