Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:58:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: stdout flushing after printf, SIGALRM signal and GNU Make
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> > 3. And finally (sorry), I'm having problems with the GNU make
> > (3.76.1): though it's supposed to support long file names, when I try
> > to run a makefile with LFN or a dep file starting with a dot, it
> > crashes out:
> > 
> > make.exe[1]: Entering directory `d:/gcc/libsoc~1.5/src'
> > make.exe[1]: *** No rule to make target `protoresolve', needed by
> > `library2'.  Stop.
> > Any ideas?
> Not for that one. Eli?

The obvious one: set LFN=y in the environment (if that's Windows 95; if 
it's Windows/NT, forget about long names: NT doesn't allow DOS programs 
to access them).