Cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)

Mon Sep 13 12:28:00 GMT 2004

On Monday 13 September 2004 14:19, Mohan Embar wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>> > > Rutger Ovidius pointed out off list that he has problems
> > > building libgcj under Cygwin because of command-line
> > > length limitations that used to be worked around when
> > > building libgcj.la. I haven't looked into this much but
> > > was wondering if this rang a bell with anyone....
> >
> >Do we know why this is? Doesn't Cygwin use bash?
>> Cygwin uses bash too, but probably has more severe command-line-
> length limitations which expose this issue than say bash on RH 9.0.
> I don't build on Windows, but recall that I was surprised to see
> the massive link command line on Linux and sort of wondered out
> loud why things didn't break.
>> MinGW folks, has anyone run across this when building gcj
> on Cygwin or MSYS?:
>> - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2004-09/msg00085.html
> - http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2004-09/msg00088.html

I got a report from Kelley Cook when I provided my automake 1.9 patch 
for review. I did a little change but he never replied if it works or 
not.
Michael