Re: [Mingw-users] mingw32-make return "*** INTERNAL: readdir: Invalid argument" error

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: zhangxinghai <zxh...@16...>
> 
> By the way,I try to copy sh.exe from msys/bin directory to the path in the
> path variable one by one.I continue succeed until I copy to the
> c:\windows\system32\wbem directory.

You succeed as long as sh.exe is in a directory _before_
c:\windows\system32\wbem or as long as it is in a directory _after_
c:\windows\system32\wbem?

> Then I move this directory after the c:\mingw\bin directory.Now the
> path looks like this
> 
> PATH=c:\mingw\bin;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;D:\oracle11.2g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_
> 1\bin;D:\oracle\ora92\bin;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.3.1\bin;C:\Program
> Files
> \Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\Program
> Files\Intel\DMIX
> ;d:\Program Files\Sybase\SQL Anywhere 7\win32;d:\Program
> Files\Sybase\Shared\Pow
> erBuilder;D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;D:\Program
> Files
> \Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\100\To
> ols\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\Commo
> n7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;D:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\
> 
> Now I succeed until I copy to the C:\WINDOWS directory.It seems the problem
> concerns with the length of the  path variable.

I doubt that the length of PATH is the factor here.  I see no
limitations on that in the Make sources.  E.g., my PATH is 311
characters long, which is shorter than yours, but much longer than the
part up until c:\windows in your PATH.

Do all the directories on your PATH exist and are accessible to your
user?

Also, if you invoke mingw32-make with the -d switch, do you see a line
like this in its output:

  find_and_set_shell() path search set default_shell = D:/some/path/sh.exe

Please try this both when mingw32-make works correctly and when it
fails, but on the same machine.  I understand that you can make it
fail or succeed by moving sh.exe from one directory to another.

Also, if you invoke "mingw32-make --debug=j -j80" when it fails, do
you see a message like this one:

  Jobserver slots limited to 63

By the way, why do you have PATH instead of Path?