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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:19:14 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> If nobody builds a Cygwin hosted DJGPP (like the Linux hosted DJGPP),
> we'll have to figure out how to use Cygwin make to call gcc using,
> say, a response file to pass >126 character command lines.

Eli has a patch that allows passing of up to 1024 character long
command-lines via the CMDLINE environment variable (IIRC). Maybe the
reverse trick will work with Cygwin?

(I'm not sure if this patch is in DJGPP CVS yet.)

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
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