[MinGW-dvlpr] cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)

Mon Sep 13 19:57:00 GMT 2004

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:19:21AM -0500, 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.

Cygwin has a '-X' mount option which allows longer command line lengths
than windows provides. I don't know if it would also work on msys.
cgf