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RE: Make & Bash bugs/questions
- To: "'GNU-Win32'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Brendan Simon'" <BSimon at randata dot com dot au>
- Subject: RE: Make & Bash bugs/questions
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:28:46 +0300
Brendan Simon wrote:
> When DJGPP Make tried to make the V libaryr, it had an error message
> that
> indicated it had run out of command line space (ie. did not recognise
> characters
> after about the 120th on the command line). Yet if I typed in the
> entire ar
> command manually, it worked OK. I even tried using Bash but had the
> same
> result.
>
> Is this command line limitation something to do with DJGPP ??
DJGPP's make is a _dos_ program. Dos limit for command line length is 128 chars.
> Should/would GNU-Win32 Make fix this problem (assuming that it worked
> for previous problem)
Win32 have no limit for command line length.
> I would really love to use Bash but it is SOOOOOOO slow. I run linux on
> a
> 486 DX2/66 with lots of windows open. Bash and other shells run faster
> on this
> machine than they do on my Pentium 133 running Win95.
New process creation is very slow on win32.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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