diff --git a/winsup/ChangeLog b/winsup/ChangeLog
index d61517ad4..406b004cd 100644
--- a/winsup/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-12-21  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
+
+	* Makefile.common: Don't attempt to pretty-print c++ errors.
+
 2002-12-12  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* Makefile.common: Define MINGW_LDFLAGS.
diff --git a/winsup/Makefile.common b/winsup/Makefile.common
index 12e535689..eda85cd4d 100644
--- a/winsup/Makefile.common
+++ b/winsup/Makefile.common
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 # This makefile requires GNU make.
 
-CFLAGS_COMMON:=-Wall -Wwrite-strings -fno-common -pipe -Winline -fbuiltin# -finline-functions
+CFLAGS_COMMON:=-Wall -Wwrite-strings -fno-common -pipe -Winline -fbuiltin -fmessage-length=0# -finline-functions
 MALLOC_DEBUG:=#-DMALLOC_DEBUG -I/cygnus/src/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/dlmalloc
 MALLOC_OBJ:=#/cygnus/src/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/dlmalloc/malloc.o