Re: question on Cygwin's version of make

[Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs dot cmu dot edu>]

On 3/1/2012 12:27 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Paul Allen Newell  wrote:
> > I've got a C++ tree that is running under Fedora 14, Fedora 16, and Cygwin.
> > Everything works.
> >
> > Tonight, I needed to test something and was on my Windows box, so I did a
> > cut-and-paste operation which gave me a directory of "Copy of myStuff". I
> > did a make and it worked, but I am seeing a message about "basename: extra
> > operand 'myStuff'.
> That appears to be an error message from /usr/bin/basename
>
> GNU make has a built-in function $(basename ...) but that doesn't
> appear to have such an error message.
>
> > I figured out that the spaces in the MS "Copy of myStuff" were the problem
> > and was able to rename w/o spaces and move forward.
> >
> > But I would like to ask if anyone knows what in "make" uses the basename
> > command so I can try to either massage the Makefile to deal with it or throw
> > a more meaningful error (as in "your directory has spaces in it and there
> > will be complaints")?
> Read your makefile. One of the actions is probably using basename.
> Alas, /usr/bin/basename has no way of knowing that it was invoked from
> make; you can't get "more meaningful errors".
>
> Csaba

Csaba:

The first thing I did was look in my makefiles to see if I was using 
basename. I'm not and so I am thinking that something else is calling it 
under the hood. Its the very first thing, so I am inclined to think that 
make must be calling it to load up a variable should the makefile ever 
need it.

I went through the gnu.org man html and can't see much more than 
"basename" exists and how to use it.

Using Macro's suggestion of 2>&1 doesn't capture the basename 
error/warning message. I tried "make > make.out 2>&1" and the message 
still isn't being captured.

Given that I don't like spaces in filenames/directories, its a moot 
point in terms of how to avoid the problem. But the inability to capture 
the output is bothering me ...

Paul

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