>cmd.exe is limited to 8K characters on its command line. Could that be the >reason for the problem?
Yes that's the very reason why I am doing it the way I am doing it, otherwise, I would just echo the whole variable value at once and be done with, but I can't since the whole variable value $(very_long_list), all the words in it, are far longer than 8K. (...) > I can tell you that the words in very long list > > $(foreach item, $(very_long_list), $(shell echo $(item)>>foobar.txt)) > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
