From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP on drive c: and sources on drive d: PROBLEM
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:46:41 -0500
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Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 
> without GUI it happens to work with all my dos program, but DJGPP:
> I always got "make.exe: *** no targets. stop."
> First I thought about LFN, but the settings was not changed
> and files are 8+3.
> 
> After all, I have realized that the only thing was changed:
> I moved all my sources to another drive (d:)
> I copy them back to c: there compiler resides - and no more problem now!
> 
> I guess this strange bug come from DJGPP's UNIX nature:
> only one logical drive there...

This cannot be true; I have been able to compile across multiple drives
for as long as I've used DJGPP.  The GNU source code may be Unix-based,
but many years of development have ironed out 99% of the DOS-related
peculiarities (although more seem to be found in each release).  In an
example of the reciprocal nature of free software development, many of
these DOS-specific patches can also be found in stock gcc.

Anyway, please describe your configuration and your project in greater
detail; it may be that one or more environment variables contain
relative rather than absolute paths, or that your makefile specifies
absolute rather than relative paths.  Can you compile programs on other
drives without using Make (i.e., by calling gcc manually)?  Is this
other drive a networked drive?  If so, what NOS (Network Operating
System) are you using?  If nothing you try seems to work, please read
chapter 6.12 of the DJGPP FAQ for instructions on reporting your system
configuration.

P.S.:  DJGPP also supports Windows 95 long filenames, so you are safe in
using them if you want to (remember to SET LFN=Y and see chapter 8.2 of
the FAQ for additional LFN-related recommendations).

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