Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: Cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues?(wasRe: GC Problems...)

[Stanley Brown <stanley dot brown at zimmer dot com>]

> 1) libtool's max command line length test isn't good enough. In
> addition to checking maximum byte size of arguments, it also needs to
> check for maximum number of arguments (ie argc) and maximum length of an
> individual argument.  This would be enough to make any system happy, I
> think.

I've always believed that Msys was somehow gimped by some maximum 
command line length within Windows itself since, despite emulating a 
bash shell, it still calls windows executables.

Doing a quick google I came across some information along this line : 
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/10/56028.aspx

The author of the blog continues with some ideas on correcting the issue:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/12/11/56043.aspx