make losing my PATH

[Robert Bresner]

Howdy...

A reiteration of the problem I mentioned earlier --
I'm using GNU Make version 3.76.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland
McGrath.

In my makefile, I have this rule:

	$(DLL_DEF_NAME): $(DEF_SOURCES)
			@echo Making the def file
			echo $(DEF_SOURCES) > temp_file
			$(SYM) -d $(TARGET_NAME).dll -o $(DLL_DEF_NAME) @temp_file
			$(RM) temp_file

The DEF_SOURCES variable == to the pathname of some 116 libraries,
that are simply echo'd into the temp_file. I get this error:
	The input line is too long.

Granted, the value of DEF_SOURCES is well over 3k. 
But, this didn't used to be an issue. This only
recently started happening... and not to 
_everyone_ at my office.

So, I changed the echo > temp_file to a perl script that
creates the temp_file instead, and now that works. But, now
after the perl script (WHich does nothing but create a file 'temp_file'
and print a bunch of filepaths in that file), make is losing
the value of PATH. (And Path, for that matter, as this is happening
on NT4 SP3/4/5)

This is happening in Emacs, and in an NT cmd.exe shell. CygWin's
sh.exe shell.


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Robert Bresner          rbresner@olf.com
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