Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] NMAKE: expanded command line '...' to

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:51:10 -0800
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:46:38AM -0500, Andrew C. Feren wrote:
> You might also try installing a new python version.  I saw this
> problem when I used the python that came with cygwin, but not when I
> installed 2.1 or 2.2 from python.org

The error appears to be coming from nmake, not from Python.  Perhaps the
different version of Python you're using has a shorter pathname, and
that made the difference between "command line too long for nmake" and
"command line not too long for nmake".