Compilation issue after upgrading cygwin from 1.7.9 to 1.7.16

[marco atzeri]

On 9/4/2012 4:42 PM, Caporossi Jérôme wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a compilation issue after upgrading Cygwin.
> I am working with Metaware IDE, calling a dedicated compiler/linker called mcc.
>
> All the makefiles are generated by Metaware and the compilation is launched through gmake.

Should you ask Synopsis ? mcc is not discussed here.

>
> In the makefile, mcc arguments is quite long (the mcc line is up to 10036 characters).
> Then when launching the compilation, the following error is raised:
>
> (C:\ARC\MetaWare\arc\bin\mcc:) No files specified.
>
> It is like if the mcc cmd was too long and is truncated before the source file to be specified.

make a copy of the two outputs with something like
"make |& tee make.log"
and than compare.

>
> This issue is only seen with Cygwin 1.7.16, everything is fine with Cygwin 1.7.9.
>
>   Kind regards,
> Jerome
>

I doubt an upgrade from 1.7.9 to 1.7.16 changes only the cygwin dll.
A lot of other packages have been updated in the meantime.

Regards
Marco


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