Seems to me this whole thread is missing an intermediate test. All the discussion so far has been on terminal output vs cron. But if the issue is buffering we should expect to see the same problem when dumping output into a file without cron (eg "make > make.log 2>&1"), no? So why not try that? If the problem is gone, it must be very specifically related to cron and not terminal-vs-file. I don't usually see garbling when logging to a file but, as Paul says, it's a property of the toolchain.
If you have Expect installed, there's a little program that comes with it which emulates a tty for this purpose. ISTR it's called "unbuffer". David Boyce _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
