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Re: question on Cygwin's version of make
- From: marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: pnewell at cs dot cmu dot edu
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:23:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: question on Cygwin's version of make
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I've got a C++ tree that is running under Fedora 14, Fedora 16, and Cygwin.
> Everything works.
>
> Tonight, I needed to test something and was on my Windows box, so I did a
> cut-and-paste operation which gave me a directory of "Copy of myStuff". I
> did a make and it worked, but I am seeing a message about "basename: extra
> operand 'myStuff'.
>
> I figured out that the spaces in the MS "Copy of myStuff" were the problem
> and was able to rename w/o spaces and move forward.
names with spaces are always a problem for a lot of unix/cygwin
program, so my suggestion
is to rename the directory.
Please also note that copy&paste will likely mess your file permission
> But I would like to ask if anyone knows what in "make" uses the basename
> command so I can try to either massage the Makefile to deal with it or throw
> a more meaningful error (as in "your directory has spaces in it and there
> will be complaints")?
>
> I also noticed that if I run "make >& make.out" that the message is printed
> to the terminal and is not in make.out. What am I missing to capture all
> output in make.out?
I like this way
make &2>1 |tee make.out
"&2>1" redirect the error message to the std output
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
>
> ps: I haven't included all the details of cygcheck as I think the issue is
> on my end once I have an idea of why basename is being called -- will gladly
> provide if it helps
>
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