Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-12 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:54:35PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > In other words, I can't make dist even with GNU make 3.82? What do you > > suggest, then? > > Well, you could try my patch from > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4219 > (append /raw to the URL to get it unmangle

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:11:20PM CET: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:56:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > [1] On some systems this is not true; e.g., GNU make evades the limit on > > MSYS for this particular point, IIRC using a response file. > >

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-09 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:11:20PM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > "make distdir" fails. The Makefile.am is not a single file. A combined > file is here: http://paste.xinu.at/ou4jy/, but I'm not sure that is very > useful. A tarball with all .am files is here: http://paste.xinu.at/TzadQ/ In

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-09 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:37:24AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The > > libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large) > > for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The > libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large) > for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily executed > the "distdir" target when copied into a bash

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:03:59PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. > > The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really > > large) for maximum arg

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:01:12PM CET: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Also, we wrote a short section in the manual about this (in recent > > versions): > > info Automake "Length Limitations" > > I hadn't seen that, before. N

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:56:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [1] On some systems this is not true; e.g., GNU make evades the limit on > MSYS for this particular point, IIRC using a response file. Can automake do something similar? The dist files are always the same (well, they should be), so

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. > The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really > large) for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily > executed the "distd

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: > > I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions > > and proposed solutions related to this problem: > > > > - Split up file lists s

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: > I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions > and proposed solutions related to this problem: > > - Split up file lists so several rules are generated: > http://lists.gnu.org/arc

execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
Hi, I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions and proposed solutions related to this problem: - Split up file lists so several rules are generated: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-11/msg00106.html - "What is your env's size?" http://lists.gnu.