Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:06:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > I've seen the "cannot make pipes for command substitution" error before.
> > Restarting the make process seemed to do the trick each time (on Windows 98
> > 'SE), so it seemed more like an intermittent failure to me. Which OS were you
> > building on?
> 
> I'm believe it was Windows 2000.  I may have only seen the error once
> and then gave up.

Sounds like Windows (or DJGPP) leaks some resources.  The error message 
comes from the shell's `foo bar` constructs, which require files to be 
open and a subprogram to be run.  If some resources required for this are 
missing, this will fail.