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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:19:41 -0400
From: Mark Blackburn <marklist AT fangorn DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: 1.3.12 & XP command line limit exceeded
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Brian Post wrote:

> We are using Cygwin to host Sony's PS2 version of the GCC compiler to
> build our PS2 game.
>
> I use ee-ar to build some libraries and have found a problem where a
> command line length of  > 32K fails with an error. I have included in
> 4Cygwin.zip because of list 100000 bytes limit an example which works &
> one that fails & the results of cygcheck. The working command line is
> 21941 characters long while the one that fail is 34651 characters long.
> I tried making it less than 32K but that didn't work.
>
>  
>
Different environments have different command line length limits. I'm 
not sure what cygwin's is. I believe POSIX only requires 2k though and 
you're well over that so I wouldn't expect a cygwin patch if I were you.
You might be better off working around it:

for i in $(OBJS) ; do ee-ar -r $$i; done
(if this doesn't mess up /bin/sh)

or if your project is somewhat organized

ee-ar -r $(FOO_OBJS)
ee-ar -r $(BAR_OBJS)
etc.

assuming all of your subgroups of objects won't violate any limits.


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