From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: 12 Sep 2000 11:10:09 GMT
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Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk AT dds DOT nl> wrote:
>  From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
>  On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 02:22:13 GMT
[...]

>>If nobody builds a Cygwin hosted DJGPP (like the Linux hosted DJGPP),
>>we'll have to figure out how to use Cygwin make to call gcc using,
>>say, a response file to pass >126 character command lines.

> How about using the version of make distributed with MinGW? Or are
> there problems I'm not aware of?

MinGW make has the exact same problem as Cygwin make: it's a Win32
application, and it does not know how to call DJGPP executables and
pass them overly long command lines.

The trick suggested by Damian would be to make a compiler targetting
DJGPP, where the compiler itself is *not* built with DJGPP, but with
Cygwin (or MinGW32, whichever you prefer). This would then allow
Cygwin or MinGW32 'make' to pass it long command lines, and it would
also remove the long filename invisibility bugging NT users of DJGPP.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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