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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
