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Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support



On 2005-08-25, at 13:57, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


Marcin Dalecki wrote:

On 2005-08-25, at 09:14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

That's what I meant with my comment btw.  It's a horrible idea to
put in all the junk to support inferior OSes into gcc and all other
other programs, and with cygwin and djgpp there are already two nice
enviroments for that.

man xargs?


How are you going to use xargs for


gcc -o myprog `find $dir -name "*.c"`

If $dir is 50 characters long, it only takes 500 files before it overflows a 32k command line.

It was meant to suggest that the supposedly inferior system just imposes a lower limit which exists on the other system as well. It was an example of "junk" in the supposedly not inferior OS. Some people simply apparently have gone snow blind. Perhaps because they where living for too long only among penguins?


@file was a *very* useful feature when I worked on compiling libjava one directory at a time. And it solved PR20155 as well.

Yes it is *very* useful IMHO.



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