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

Wed Sep 22 09:03:00 GMT 2004

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:41, Simon Levitt wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 02:33, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> > $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) expands to a huge list of objects, and so
> > make fails while trying to execute sh to run this line, before
> > libtool is even called.
>> When I was building it all I did wonder why the la line worked and
> the link failed.
>> It's occuring to me that it might be a function of the path
> underwhich its being built, so in my case the command gets
> truncated (by amasing luck) just after a full filename, so the
> command actually works but with less files passed to it.
>> That in turn I suppose may mean my built libgcj.a doesn't contain
> all the files it should! But I can't say I've noticed that!
>> > I tried both MinGW make and MSYS make, but both of those didn't
> > work at all for other reasons I have not investigated.
>> I'm using MSYS make. But your probably right in that it makes
> little difference.

Note that GCC depends on GNU make. I dont know of any of those is 
derived from it.
Michael