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

Tue Sep 21 20:36:00 GMT 2004

Simon Levitt wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 13:19, Mohan Embar wrote:
>>>MinGW folks, has anyone run across this when building gcj
>>on Cygwin or MSYS?:
>>> I have (Although you probably couldn't define me as a MinGW person!).
> I've been Building under MinGW/MSYS.
>> I couldn't get the 3.4 branch to build without getting far to involved in the 
> errors being produced.
> So I tried 3.5 - All I needed to do to get that to build was change the 
> maximum command line length setting variable in the libtool script within the 
> mingw32/libjava directory. 
>> I've put it down to something probably stupidly low (2048) which forced 
> libtool into incremental linking.

Can you tell me exactly how you did this? I've tried modifying both all
instances of max_cmd_len in libjava/dlltool, and modifying ltconfig
directly, all before configuring and building, and it does not seem to
stop make from attempting to pass that huge command line.
Aaron W. LaFramboise