Re: Evading the command line length limit (on Linux)

2009-07-30 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 22:51 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > 1) One possibility would be to drop -c and pipe the command line to sh > on standard input. Just like parallel make, this would prevent using > the standard input of the make process within the child command process. > > 2) Another possi

[bug #27143] Crash in a pair of mutually recursive macros

2009-07-30 Thread Timothy N Murphy
URL: Summary: Crash in a pair of mutually recursive macros Project: make Submitted by: tnmurphy Submitted on: Thu 30 Jul 2009 16:42:11 GMT Severity: 3 - Normal Item Grou

[bug #23960] Crash when MAKEFILE_LIST becomes too long.

2009-07-30 Thread Timothy N Murphy
Additional Item Attachment, bug #23960 (project make): File name: variable_assign_crash.mk Size:6 KB ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent

Re: Evading the command line length limit (on Linux)

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Smith wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:19:53PM CEST: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 22:51 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > 2) Another possibility would be a hack like the following: split the > > long line into N substrings, each below the argument limit, and invoke > > > > sh -c

Re: Evading the command line length limit (on Linux)

2009-07-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:19:53 -0400 > Cc: Xan Lopez , bug-make@gnu.org > > Remember that we actually have this problem in spades on other systems, > like Windows, where the command line length if far SHORTER than Linux. Perhaps you think about the 127-character limitation