RE: make: *** [debug_base_make] Error 255

[Nandish S Matad]

You are correct Raleigh, thanks for pointing out the exact problem. As a
solution we have used cygwin. cygwin does not have any limit on the cmd line
length as it uses standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows
including APIs and command shells.

Thanks & regards,
Nandish S Matad


Rinehart, Raleigh wrote:
> 
> It is indeed a limitation with XP, the cmd your makefile is trying to
> invoke is exceeding the character length limits of Windows' cmd processor. 
> You'll need to find a way to divide the command up into smaller pieces. 
> It is a little difficult to provide a specific solution without seeing
> what your make rule is doing.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -raleigh
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I try to compile around 300 *.c files with (OS: windows xp
> professional ) gnu make 3.80 am getting an error like
> 
> The input line is too long.
> make: *** [debug_base_make] Error 255
> 
> Hope it is not limitation with xp. Can you please let me know what kind of
> error is this. I got similar kind of error earlier but it was resolved by
> reducing the length of the folder names. Now my folder structure have
> almost single character as names !! Still am getting the error.
> 
> Please sagest me some solution and also help full if you can tell why is
> this error.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Nandish S Matad
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