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Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:18:22 -0500
From: Fred Yankowski <fred AT ontosys DOT com>
To: "Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com>
Cc: "'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

A spurious environment variable value might cause such a problem.
Check the value of SHELL in particular.  You might try whittling down
your environment to a bare minimum -- perhaps just PATH and HOME -- as
a quick check.

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".

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