Re: ``Command line too long'' from Make.

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Trying to build the MS-DOS port presently results in protests from make:
>
> Command line too long.
> ( printf 'shortlisp = \\\n'; \
> sed -n 's/^[ \t]*(load "\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' ../lisp/loadup.el | \
>   sed -e 's/$/.elc \\/' -e 's/\.el\.elc/.el/'; \
> echo "" ) > lisp.mk.tmp
> make.exe: *** No rule to make target 'lisp.mk'.  Stop.
>
> when generating lisp.mk.  What may be causing this?  Has loadup.el grown
> to the point where its preloaded files now overflow a fixed-size MS-DOS
> buffer, or is there a knob in COMMAND.COM that must be adjusted?
>
> Thanks.

Please disregard this message.  I overlooked several sed statements that
should've been repaired.