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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>,
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Subject: Re: Proposed patch for "/bin/sh: Argument list too long" when compiling 
 LINT ...
References: <20020218.174959.96666779.imp@village.org> <20020219193515.Y1320-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020219004144.A25474@iguana.icir.org> <20020219085306.GL12136@elvis.mu.org> <20020221151439.D53952@iguana.icir.org> <xzpzo225qrv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020221161651.E54262@iguana.icir.org> <xzpvgcq5pwe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020222002822.GJ12136@elvis.mu.org>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [020221 16:19] wrote:
> > Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> writes:
> > > i think Al's solution (make -V ... | xargs .. )
> > > wins both in terms of simplicity and efficiency
> >
> > Ah, of course!  now why didn't I think of that? :)
> 
> My first thought was:
>   "If make(1) doesn't have that functionality I will beat it into it
>    with a lead pipe..."
> 
> Luckly I can across the option. :)

Alfred, an hour later: "Wow, there's a lot of code in here
that almost does exactly what I want!".

8-) 8-).

-- Terry

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