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> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:31:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: RayeR <glaux AT centrum DOT cz>
> 
> There's nothing unusual
> 
> touch .version
> rm -f libavcodec/libavcodec.a
> ar rc libavcodec/libavcodec.a libavcodec/012v.o libavcodec/4xm.o ...
> 
> except the last line is 14379 chars long, maybe it's excessive for stupid MS cmd.exe. But even if I run djgpp bash and then make it fails too. How to overcome this problem?

If your ar is a DJGPP program (as it should be), the cmd limitations
should be irrelevant, because DJGPP passes arguments by a different
method.  That method has the default size limitation of 16KB, so if
your environment is large, 14379 might be too long.

You can work around this by splitting the ar command into 2, or by
stubedit-ing your make.exe to give it a larger transfer buffer.