Re: GNU make 4.2 (and 4.2.1) failing due to length of command-line

> From: Michael Stahl <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:43:44 +0200
> 
> >> FWIW i've noticed that with make 4.0/4.1 built for Win32, invoking the
> >> Cygwin bash shell as C:/cygwin/bin/sh.exe, the command lines are
> >> silently truncated at ~8K characters - this did not happen when we used
> >> GNU make 3.82 built for Cygwin.
> > 
> > You are talking about the Cygwin build of Make, yes?  That's a
> > different build from the one in the OP's report.
> 
> no, Win32 make - i noticed while adapting the LibreOffice build system
> from Cygwin make to Win32 make a couple years ago (which gave a large
> speed improvement, see [1] for details) that some commands that used to
> work before failed with Win32 make because the command lines were truncated.

That certainly doesn't happen here -- but I don't use Cygwin programs
at all.