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Re: PATCH: Avoid long commands in libtool
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Avoid long commands in libtool
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 11 Jul 2001 08:19:08 -0300
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107110349550.12662-100000@mars.deadcafe.org>
On Jul 11, 2001, Jeff Sturm <jsturm@one-point.com> wrote:
> I have had problems whenever the command output exceeded 8192 bytes.
Ouch!
> You could say it is a shell bug, and rightly so.
But it would still be nice to get libtool to work on it. We support
so much shell lossage that it shouldn't be too hard to support this
one. There are several ways to do it. Beside the one I've already
suggested, there is always sed, that can be used to extract individual
lines off a file, or even parts of individual lines.
> Are you certain that applies to redirection, and not just piped
> commands?
I'm afraid so.
> If you like I'll repost to libtool-patches@gnu.org where these issues are
> a bit more on topic.
Yes, please :-)
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