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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> > Fellow hackers,
> >=20
> > suppose you have a long list of files in a make variable V, exceeding
> > kern.argmax. This means there is no way you can write a rule where $(V)
> > is a command argument in any way shape or form. There is also no way to
> > pass the value of V to xargs that I know of. For example with this
>=20
> depending on the use, you might use something like
>=20
> 	make -V variable_name | xargs ...
>=20
> within the makefile. I got the suggestion from someone long ago
> when I had this problem with src/sys/conf/Makefile.i386
>=20
I can only confirm that this is the only known solution so far.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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