From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30672 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2003 12:34:27 -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 30665 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2003 12:34:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 2003 12:34:26 -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 h8PCYQmL028344; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:34:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h8PCYQ3p028341; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:34:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:46:00 -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: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9@bertigep> Message-ID: References: <006601c38335$a62e8dc0$8006fea9@bertigep> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01599.txt.bz2 On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: > > $ perl -e 'print "all:;\t\@true && \\\n"; foreach $i > > (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print > > "\ttrue\n";' | make -f - > > make: *** [all] Error 255 > > Yes, that fails from 1990. > > Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted? Try it on Linux. If it works there, post it to the Cygwin list (i.e., here) with words to that effect. If it doesn't work on Linux either, post it to some general make bugs list -- I'm sure there is one; look at the homepage for GNU make. 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/