Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <200207090501.g6951Mo14832@etp1.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Andrew Chang To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: The "make" command and file handle problem Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:01:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On cygwin1.3.12-1, I am running a multi-level makefile. For some reason the top level make seems corrupt the file handle of the its sub-process. (redirected i/o no longer works in the sub-process). Note that my top level makefile is a very complex makefile, it probably works fine if you have a simple makefile. Fortunately, I stumble across a workaround; It turns out if you spawn the lower level make via the DOS shell, the problem goes away. e.g. low_level_target: cd sub_dir && cmd /c make low_level_stuff; Hope this will save someone sometime... If anyone have some insight into what might have caused this, pls drop us a note... thanks Andrew Chang -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/