Strange error when building.....

[Amato, Tom]

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone can answer this. I am getting a strange error
message when I perform a "make" within a cmd.exe. I get the following error:

Dependencies built for: D:\views\mitch_view\sas\nci\diag\ds3_fem_tests.c
Dependencies built for: D:\views\mitch_view\sas\nci\diag\ds3_test_funcs.c
perl was unexpected at this time.
make[2]: *** [ds3_tests.d] Error 0x1

I am using the gcc compiler to generate a dependency list and piping the
output into a simple perl script. Something along the lines of:

gcc -M foo.c | perl -pe "small script here"

This script has been working fine now for over 2 years, but just recently
this error has started to appear, and it only happens sporadically. But once
it happens it will continue to fail in the same spot over and over. If I
recreate the source tree in another directory and build it, it will work
fine. Has anyone seen something like this (perl or any other command)?

perl was unexpected at this time.

Is this a make (GNU Make version 3.74 (vpath+)) related problem or an NT 4.0
(SP5) related problem? Could this have something to do with the length of
command line being used? Is there a way to increase the size of the command
line for cmd.exe?

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Tom