On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > "make bug"? I'm getting this on Linux:
> >
> > make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
> > make: *** [all] Error 127
> >
> > Doesn't look like a bug at all to me.
> >
> > Corinna
>
> Urp. What I meant was "if it fails in the same way on Linux". The above
> looks like a legitimate error message. FWIW, I just tried it on a RedHat
> 7.3 machine, and I'm getting the same error as Corinna. Now that you
> mention it, it could be that Cygwin's /bin/sh is exiting with status 255
> on an overlong argument list, and this has nothing to do with make per
> se... Although all of
>
> for sh in /bin/sh /bin/ksh /bin/bash /bin/tcsh; do
> perl -e 'print "all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] && echo \$\$SHELL && \\\n"; foreach $i
> (0000..9999) { print "\techo -n $i && \\\n"; } print "\techo && true\n";' | make -f
> - SHELL=$sh
> done
>
> printed "make: *** [all] Error 255", so I doubt it's a specific shell's
> behavior... This is obviously Cygwin-specific, though.
Why so complicated?
A simple strace shows that the native Windows call CreateProcess() fails
with error 87.
$ net helpmsg 87
The parameter is incorrect.
Another simple look into MSDN for the CreateProcess call reveals:
lpCommandLine
[in, out] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the
command line to execute. The maximum length of this string is 32K
characters.
Corinna
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