From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Automatic linking with RHIDE
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:06:28 +0200
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Mike Collins wrote:

> I am writing a program that has a lot of C files. When I compile, everything
> compiles OK, but it can't all link because the list of C files is too long
> for the linker input line. I could no doubt merge some of these files into
> one so that the number of files would be fewer, but is there a way of
> increasing the length of the linker input line?

Either (1) use a Makefile, in which case Make will use the DJGPP-specific 
method of passing long command lines to the linker; or (2) write your 
command to a file and use it as a response file (see sections 16.4 and 
16.5 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more details).