Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:53:06 -0800 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 ... Message-ID: <20020219085306.GL12136@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020219004144.A25474@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020218.174959.96666779.imp@village.org> <20020219193515.Y1320-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020219004144.A25474@iguana.icir.org>
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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). -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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