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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:34:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Fodor Bertalan cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?) In-Reply-To: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9@bertigep> Message-ID: References: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9 AT bertigep> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: > > $ perl -e 'print "all:;\t\@true && \\\n"; foreach $i > > (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print > > "\ttrue\n";' | make -f - > > make: *** [all] Error 255 > > Yes, that fails from 1990. > > Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted? Try it on Linux. If it works there, post it to the Cygwin list (i.e., here) with words to that effect. If it doesn't work on Linux either, post it to some general make bugs list -- I'm sure there is one; look at the homepage for GNU make. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/