Libjava craziness

Thu May 17 22:26:00 GMT 2001

On May 18, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
Alexandre> On May 17, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Alexandre> wrote:
>>> The cause is the following wonderful N^2 algorithm used to
>>> produce the library:

Alexandre> Looks like something went wrong in the test that
Alexandre> detects the maximum command-line length. Look for
Alexandre> lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len in config.cache and for
Alexandre> max_cmd_len in libtool. If you could find out why it
Alexandre> got a small value for you, it would be appreciated.
> Thanks for the quick reply.

> Rats. I deleted the 7GB already. I'm trying again -- and perversely
> hoping it will happen again.

It certainly will, if you got the same failure in max cmd line lenght
detection. It detected a maximum command line of 37 bytes.
> Here is what I have from the log -- and it appears you guess is
> correct:

> finding the maximum length of command line arguments... ../../../libstdc++-v3/../ltconfig: Can't reopen pipe to command substitution (fd 4): No child processes
> ../../../libstdc++-v3/../ltconfig: test: !=: unary operator expected
> 37

Looks like a problem in bash. Here's a tentative solution:
> Looking at the loop that does this check, it should have terminated
> when $i was 32.

That would have been a maximum length of 6^{32}, not 32. Here's a
patch that fixes an incorrect use of the non-portable `==' operator
(I'm hoping this might help fixing the problem, but I really don't see
how it would), and adjusts the initial string and maximum trip count
so that we actually stop at 1 MB, as originally intended. Mark, could
you please let me know whether it helps. Libtoolers, ok to install?
> It seems like it would be better to do the deletions as we go, in any
> case

Agreed. Robert [who originally implemented piecewise linking], would
you be willing to contribute this improvement over your code? I
suppose it's just a matter of saving the name of the previous piece in
a variable, and removing it after using it to link a new piece,
instead of keeping the whole list and removing them all at the end.