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Re: make win32 chokes on lone tab
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: make win32 chokes on lone tab
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:26:46 -0400
- Cc: scarter at emware dot com
- References: <50028CAE26D1D3118C7F00A0CC50D6252D1DB6@EMWARESERVER>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:01:39PM -0600, Scott Carter wrote:
>We were having some real frustrating problems with make, but eventually
>(by chance) tracked the problem down to this: If the final (or any)
>command in a rule is an "empty command" (as it's referred to in the
>documentation)(that is, the line begins with a tab, but is otherwise
>empty -- which, in most editors, looks like a blank line), make will
>terminate with a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error.
This was very easy to track down. Running the program under gdb
immediately uncovered the problem.
I will be making a new release of make-3.79-2 shortly.
Btw, please do not send email to cygwin-support@cygnus.com. That
is for customers who have purchased the cygwin product.
cgf
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