You are correct Raleigh, thanks for pointing out the exact problem. As a solution we have used cygwin. cygwin does not have any limit on the cmd line length as it uses standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows including APIs and command shells.
Thanks & regards, Nandish S Matad Rinehart, Raleigh wrote: > > It is indeed a limitation with XP, the cmd your makefile is trying to > invoke is exceeding the character length limits of Windows' cmd processor. > You'll need to find a way to divide the command up into smaller pieces. > It is a little difficult to provide a specific solution without seeing > what your make rule is doing. > > Hope this helps, > -raleigh > > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Nandish S. Matad > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: make: *** [debug_base_make] Error 255 > > > Hi, > > When I try to compile around 300 *.c files with (OS: windows xp > professional ) gnu make 3.80 am getting an error like > > The input line is too long. > make: *** [debug_base_make] Error 255 > > Hope it is not limitation with xp. Can you please let me know what kind of > error is this. I got similar kind of error earlier but it was resolved by > reducing the length of the folder names. Now my folder structure have > almost single character as names !! Still am getting the error. > > Please sagest me some solution and also help full if you can tell why is > this error. > > > Thanks in advance.. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Nandish S Matad > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> & > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-make mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/make%3A-***--debug_base_make--Error-255-tp22058123p26192721.html Sent from the Gnu - Make - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
