On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:41:37PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > So using a recent enough kernel should get rid of that annoyance.
No; although recent kernels have no maximum length of arguments in total, they still impose a maximum length of a *single* argument. And our build system puts all the filenames inside double quotes (I believe it's being fed into sh -c), they count as a single argument, so this bites us. See MAX_ARG_STRNLEN (131072) as commented by Trevor: http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1821#c12 Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel