"Scalability" Issues with the libgcj Makefile

Tue Aug 27 10:08:00 GMT 2002

On Aug 26, 2002, Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> wrote:
> echo $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) >>libgcj.objectlist
> echo $(libgcj_la_LIBADD) >>libgcj.objectlist

> "fixes" the problem (though it is not necessarily a neat solution).

Unfortunately, this doesn't work on the very platforms on which the
989 object files exceed the command-line argument length, which is
what the $(shell ) fragment in the Makefile avoids by issuing separate
shell commands for each object file.
Perhaps the best portable option is to figure out a way to extract the
object file list from the Makefile itself. It may get trying to
follow macro expansions, but I don't see any other way out :-(
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