This is the mail archive of the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

AW: B20: BUG in gmake (NT and 95)


Hy

you mean, that is should download the current snapshot.
Where can i get it and ..... is the current snapshot good
enough to use it, or does it bear some problems .... in 
comparison to the B20 version.

Thanks


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
Gesendet am: Samstag, 11. September 1999 22:00
An: Groove, Christian
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Betreff: Re: B20: BUG in gmake (NT and 95)

I don't see this problem using a current snapshot so possibly it's fixed.

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Groove, Christian wrote:
>I found a BUG in gmake while calling the shell function.
>The bug may appear only on N(ew)T(rash) and on 95.
>
>In my makefile, i have the following assignment:
>
>	SPECIAL_SOURCE=$(shell echo magic ; echo tragic)
>
>	check:
>		@echo $(SPECIAL_SOURCE)
>
>
>Calling make check would print out only "tragic". I guess the 
>magic has been overwritten, because of a \r, that toss back
>the internal write pointer back to the initial position.
>
>Iff you exchange the assignment by a
>
>	SPECIAL_SOURCE=`echo magic ; echo tragic`
>
>everything works fine. I can not promise to fix it, cause i am running
>out of time with my project.
>
>Groovie
>
>Christian Groove
>NorCom Systems Technology GmbH
>81929 München
>Stefan-George-Ring 29
>Tel: + 49 89 93948 271
>Fax:+ 49 89 93948 111
>mailto:groove@norcom.de
>
>
>
>--
>Want to unsubscribe from this list?
>Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
>

-- 
cgf@cygnus.com
http://www.cygnus.com/

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]