On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:06:42AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:52:43AM CET:
> > ImageMagick-6.2.9 has a large number of tests. The check-TESTS rule in
> > automake-1.10 is:
> > check-TESTS: $(TESTS)
> > ...
> > list=' $(TESTS) '; \
>
> > Because AIX 4.3.3 has a small limit on the command buffer, 'make check'
> > returns:
> [...]
> > HP-UX 10.20 also has this problem:
>
> > gmake[1]: execvp: /opt/fsw/bash30/bin/bash: Arg list too long
>
> > What's the best way to solve this? AIX 5.1+ also have this problem.
> > But, we can increase ncargs to work around it.
>
> I don't see an easy fix inside Automake. First thing to try is an
> in-tree build (i.e., source tree = build tree), so that paths are
> shortest. Hmm, nope, you're already using GNU make, so that won't
> help.
I don't know if this is easy, but check-TESTS could be modified to
iterate over more than one $(TESTS) variable:
check-TESTS: $(TESTS1) $(TESTS2) $(TESTS3) ...
@failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; ws='[ ]'; \
srcdir=$(srcdir); export srcdir; \
list=' $(TESTS1) '; \
if test -n "$$list"; then \
...
fi; \
list=' $(TESTS2) '; \
if test -n "$$list"; then \
...
fi; \
list=' $(TESTS3) '; \
if test -n "$$list"; then \
...
fi; \
...
$(TESTSn) would then be broken up into small enough chunks to avoid
command-line length limitations.
--
albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
