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> From: Michael Eager
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:30 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: Argument list too long
>
> I get the error message "argument list too long"
> while building GCC on certain Cgywin installations, but not all. This
happens when make executes a command with a large number of arguments.
I'm assuming that this is because I'm running out of environment space.
>
> Some of the workarounds, like using xargs, are awkward or unfeasible.
Remounting /bin -X doesn't help (although I'm not sure how this affects
the max size of arg lists).
>
> Is there any way to increase the size of the environment space? Or
another resolution?
> This is on WindowsXP.
Michael:
What is SHELL set to in your environment? If it's not set to /bin/bash,
it's may be defaulting to CMD.EXE, which has a line-length limitation,
whereas bash (and I'm guessing most other shells in Cygwin as well) does
not - at least, not as far as I can tell. I think bash just allocates
as much memory as it needs to handle the command line, which is the
sensible approach.
Thx, Phil Long
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