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Re: ampersand at character 2048 in a command is lost in make


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:56:51PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote:
>Using cygwin 1.3.10 and 1.5.7, if an '&' ampersand character appears at
>character 2048 of a makefile command, the ampersand is lost from the
>command.  If white-space is manipulated to move the & one character
>forward or backward in the makefile command, everything works fine.
>
>I have attached a testcase makefile below that reproduces the problem
>with simple makefile echo commands.  Run "make fail" to see the failing
>case when an ampersand is at character 2048.  Run "make ok1" and "make
>ok2" to see the same command succeed if the ampersand is shifted one
>character left or right respectively.  Run "make ok3" to see the same
>command succeed if character 2048 appears in the middle of the echo
>command.
>
>(See attached file: makefile)

I tried this with the current version of cygwin and make and the output
from fail and ok1 was identical.  I tried on both textmode and binmode
mounts (not that that should make a difference).

cgf

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