On Mon, Jun 4, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Zoltán Balogh wrote: > ... in my case this very civilized version policy made the build > directory and so the -I arguments and object list arguments in the > linking that it exceeded the shell limitations.
My suggestion would be that you build a shell with a larger limit. Then, you can use the normal versioning approach that everyone else in the Ubuntu world uses and understands, and do not need to invent a new shorter one. If appropriate, you could even set a Build- Depends: on your new shell version, to "force" those building your packages to use it. As you probably already know if you have been working with line length limitations in your shell already, you can find the currently configured maximum by doing getconf ARG_MAX and you can get an idea of the practical available line length by doing echo $(($(getconf ARG_MAX)-$(env |wc -c))) Overall, it seems illogical to have a problem with shell line length limits lead you to request changes to the entire Launchpad PPA system. It would seem more appropriate to fix your shell line length issue instead. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users Post to : launchpad-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
