From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: long line with make & gcc
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 14:25:20 +0200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:
> 
> > I have a makefile that passes a long (some 300 characters) command line
> > to gcc in the linking stage. This worked fine for many years.
> > But since today the command line is truncated at character #124!
> 
> Well, the obvious reaction to that should be to ask yourself what it
> might be that you changed in your system, since this last worked.
> Installed new software? Modified autoexec.bat?
> 
> Sure the 'make' and 'gcc' being used are really the DJGPP versions?  I
> ask because you seem to have a rather big mixup of different compiler
> toolchains set up in your PATH and environment, all at the same time,
> and that's a wellknown cause of potential troubles in this area.

Thanks to all.
I found the reason for the trouble,
no idea why this caused the trouble though:

There existed a zero-length file named "gcc" with no extension
in my current directory.
I removed it and everything is O.K. again. anyone an explanation ?

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