From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25533 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2003 19:44:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25520 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2003 19:44:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Sep 2003 19:44:03 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8OJi3mL001035; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h8OJi2px001032; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:47:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Fodor Bertalan cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?) In-Reply-To: <000801c382bb$22016d80$8006fea9@bertigep> Message-ID: References: <000801c382bb$22016d80$8006fea9@bertigep> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01552.txt.bz2 On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: > > It's possible your $SHELL or $PATH is set to something weird in make. > > Error 255 usually means that a command was not found. > > I don't think so. This long line is not the first command. The others work > perfectly. > $SHELL is set to /bin/sh -- you can see it. > $PATH is also set to a normal value > > Bert I meant the values of $PATH and $SHELL *inside* make. Try inserting the following before that command: @(echo $$SHELL && echo $$PATH) and see what it prints. Also, what is MAKE_MODE set to in your environment? What version of make are you using? What version of Cygwin? Please attach (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr" to your message, as suggested in -- it will contain all the above information. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/