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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
	"M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: "/bin/sh: Argument list too long" when compiling LINT ...
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* Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> [020219 00:42] wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:36:30PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > Use a smaller path.  Or dig up bde's fixes to config from the
> > > archives.
> > 
> > That is only a temporary fix.  LINT will eventually be larger than
> > the world.
> > 
> > The list of files passed to mkdep should be split up a bit.
> 
> that is precisely why i wanted to know if cc can read a list
> of input files from a file as opposed to command line arguments.

sorry, the initial report was somewhat terse and didn't explain
where the problem occurred.  my suggestion is xargs + mkdep -a
(-a for append).

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