From: UnixOS2 Archive
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:11:31 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 190

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Sunday 07 September 2003
 Number  190
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  GNU make 3.81rc : Knut St. Osmundsen" <bird at anduin.net>
2  Re:  Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3 : Alex Newman" <anewman at optusnet.com.au>
3  Re:  GNU make 3.81rc : Andreas Buening <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>

**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 01:56:38 +0200
From:  "Knut St. Osmundsen" <bird at anduin.net>
Subject:  Re:  GNU make 3.81rc

Andreas Buening wrote:
> Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:
> 
> [make]
> 
>>In case this is EMX related it would be good to find out why this
>>happens. Could you just take a quick look at how pipes and such are
>>handled when spawning child processes?
> 
> 
> You're joking. ;-)
yeah, I'm really a stand-up comedian with very peculiar computer 
interests. ;)
> For starting child processes I do a lot of fcntl() calls with and
> without FD_CLOEXEC so I really can't say which handle is lost.
ok, ok, ok. we're all lazy. So, I've peeked into your code.
What about closing save_stdout and save_stdin for a start? (job.c, 
function child_execute_job().)

> It would be very helpful if you could provide me with a sample
> Makefile which shows this effect.
I will in a couple of days, it'll be in the LIBC sources :)

Kind Regards,
  knut


**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:23:20 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Alex Newman" <anewman at optusnet.com.au>
Subject:  Re:  Building GNU Aspell 0.50.3

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 18:09:24 -0800, Dave and Natalie wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:08:33 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> 
> >>>>Also, for some reason, it looks as though c:\emx\bin is getting
> >>>>concatenated to c:\emin. Any thoughts?
> >>>>      
> >>>>
> >>>The \b is being interpreted as a backspace, deleting the 'x'?
> >>>    
> >>>
> >>
> >>My workaround for that is the set path=x/bin;x/usr/bin;, etc., in a
> >>rexx script that starts sh (or ksh, or whatever).
> >>
> 
> Another option is
> PATH=`cmd.exe /c "echo %PATH%" | sed -e 's at \\\\ at / at g'`
 
Much more elegant :).

Alex.



**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:46:41 +0200
From:  Andreas Buening <andreas.buening at nexgo.de>
Subject:  Re:  GNU make 3.81rc

Knut St. Osmundsen wrote:

[snip]

> ok, ok, ok. we're all lazy. So, I've peeked into your code.
> What about closing save_stdout and save_stdin for a start? (job.c,
> function child_execute_job().)

Ah, yes I FD_CLOEXEC them but I don't close them.

I've just uploaded a modified version to
http://unix.os2site.com/pub/binary/make/make-3_81rc1-r2-bin.zip
Hope that helps.


Thanks!

Andreas