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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: AWS 2.1 and WinXP
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Frank wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have tried to build GLADE for Windows XP/2002/SP2 with Cygwin, and have
> basically given up for the moment (and Im considering Debian)
> My experience has been that if the path for some commands, are too long or
> contain too many directories (or I dont know what....)
> the command does not succeed. I have tampered with the makefile so it
> performs "cd [target directory]" and then perform the commands sitting in
> the directory, this seems to work. Also I had problems with a script
> called "missing" that does not have the "--run" options - Have you got
> this?

The commandline for cygwin is limited to 8192 characters - the one for Linux
32768. I first hit that restriction when compiling PolyORB for Windows.

Martin
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