Re: Need Feedback: Technical Questions Regarding GCC/GCJ 3.3 Build under MSYS/MingW

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Mohan" == Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com> writes:

Mohan> What are your thoughts on accommodating
Mohan> command-line-length-challenged build environments in this
Mohan> way (using file lists)? And if you're not averse to this,
Mohan> what is the best way to check for the existence of
Mohan> such an ar-variant?

Tom> Don't we already do this?

Mohan> To my knowledge, ar does not support file lists. Am I missing
Mohan> something?

You can use multiple invocations of ar instead.  That's what libtool
already does.  (I think I must have missed part of this discussion,
since I thought someone already mentioned that.)

I think all cygwin tools automatically supported `@' file lists.  The
last time I used cygwin, this was built into the library.  (I know
nothing about mingw and how it is similar to or different from
cygwin.)

Tom