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Re: Cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Simon Levitt <simon dot levitt at worldpay dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>, MinGW Developer <mingw-dvlpr at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:32:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)
- References: <HDGA97IGCARZUSMPL611U21OIRQ93RO.41459049@p733><200409131443.43582.simon.levitt@worldpay.com>
Simon Levitt writes:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 13:19, Mohan Embar wrote:
> > MinGW folks, has anyone run across this when building gcj
> > on Cygwin or MSYS?:
> >
> I have (Although you probably couldn't define me as a MinGW person!).
> I've been Building under MinGW/MSYS.
>
> I couldn't get the 3.4 branch to build without getting far to involved in the
> errors being produced.
> So I tried 3.5 - All I needed to do to get that to build was change the
> maximum command line length setting variable in the libtool script within the
> mingw32/libjava directory.
>
> I've put it down to something probably stupidly low (2048) which forced
> libtool into incremental linking.
OK. We should get a patch in for this.
> I'm incredibly impressed with the whole lot. I really didn't expect the whole
> GCJ environment to work as well as it has under Win32 when I suggested it as
> a technological solution to a problem we had....
Excellent.
Andrew.