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Hi, I know I'm late, but ....

On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:25:02 PM UTC-5, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:10:33 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: RayeR <glaux AT dontspam DOT cz>
> 
> > > ar(1) is failing.  Find out what AR expands to and run it by hand; it
> > > may give you a better message.
> 
> > How can I display what command really make executes?
> 
> Try make V=1

(Not sure if I totally understand this, feel free to correct me.)

I thought GNU make had an opposite of "-s", but I don't see it now. Perhaps
I was thinking of some other make. Probably, as I now see OpenWatcom's wmake
has "-sn" (noisy mode: print all commands). Apparently POSIX doesn't specify
this, so you'll have to either use some non-standard option (and I'm not sure
"--trace" would help much, if at all) or manually remove '@' and ".SILENT"
from any Makefiles. However, "make -n" would show you in advance what it
wants to do.

IIRC, there is also a POSIX shell option ("set -x") that shows every
command executed, but ./configure usually turns that off, so you'll have
to delete their doing that or manually set it later on.

As for alternatives to CMD, I don't know how well one would work in this
situation, never tried. Dunno if it overcomes the cmdline limit. However,
if you're bored enough, feel free to try TCC/LE (formerly 4NT):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Command_(command_line_interpreter)