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

Tue Sep 21 23:37:00 GMT 2004

You can change max_cmd_len in work around fashion in the generated 
libtool script. Be sure to change all occurrences in the script, there 
are three or four.
Earnie
Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>>>>Simon Levitt wrote:
>>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>I looked at this in more detail. The problem happens before libtool is
>even invoked, which is why max_cmd_len doesn't appear to make a difference.
>>make is trying to invoke libtool with all of the dependencies. If that
>invokation were successful, which it isn't, libtool would then do the
>correct partial link. But it doesn't get that far. I think something
>needs to tell automake about max_cmd_len also so that it does not cause
>make to exceed the maximum length. I'm not entirely sure how this would
>work though, because it seems like it might mean requiring automake to
>know about partial links also.
>>Aaron W. LaFramboise
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