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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Kate Ebneter <kebneter AT apple DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange problem with make (or bash?) under cygwin
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On Mon, 24 May 2004, Kate Ebneter wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I have a frankly bizarre problem using make under cygwin. The short and
> sweet description of the problem is that sometimes, the compiler or
> other tool being called by make is passed an empty command line. I
> don't know if the problem is in make, the shell, or the compiler(s)
> (although I consider them an unlikely culprit).
>
> [snip]
>
> I'm pretty much tearing my hair out here. If anyone has any suggestions
> as to how we might tackle this problem -- things we might look for,
> possible causes? -- I'd love to hear them.
>
> Thanks,
> Kate Ebneter

Some debugging suggestions:

Doesn't "make" print a trace of the commands it's invoking?  There's a way
to make it do this with a command line option.  This way you'd know what
the arguments passed to the compiler were.  Also, what is the value of
$MAKE_MODE in your environment?  What is the value of $SHELL?  Can you
print "$$SHELL" from inside the Makefile?
	Igor
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