From: MarkJ AT Datafit DOT co DOT uk (Mark Johnson) Subject: Command line length limit 24 Nov 1997 19:20:12 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" I happen to have a makefile where a target has several hundred dependencies (it is a zipfile). Unfortunately the win32 make reports an execvp error when attempting to exec the shell, either bash or cmd.exe, with the dependency list or export the dependency list as an environment variable. I can of course have a number of sub targets to keep the length of the dependency list down, but what is the maximum limit? Any other possible workaround would also be appreciated. I have tried echoing to a tempfile or the environment, then invoking zip to read from the appropriate source but with no success. I may be able to make use of the facilities for archives, but it wasn't clear to me whether I could use utilities designed for a different file format in place of the default ones. Does make understand the internals of archive files? Thanks for your help. Mark Johnson Datafit Ltd. Huntingdon UK - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".