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Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)
- From: Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>
- To: mingw-dvlpr at lists dot sourceforge dot net
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, GCJ Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Rutger Ovidius <r_ovidius at eml dot cc>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:59:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)
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- Reply-to: mingw-dvlpr at lists dot sourceforge dot net
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:19:21AM -0500, Mohan Embar wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>> > Rutger Ovidius pointed out off list that he has problems
>> > building libgcj under Cygwin because of command-line
>> > length limitations that used to be worked around when
>> > building libgcj.la. I haven't looked into this much but
>> > was wondering if this rang a bell with anyone....
>>
>>Do we know why this is? Doesn't Cygwin use bash?
>
>Cygwin uses bash too, but probably has more severe command-line-
>length limitations which expose this issue than say bash on RH 9.0.
>I don't build on Windows, but recall that I was surprised to see
>the massive link command line on Linux and sort of wondered out
>loud why things didn't break.
Cygwin has a '-X' mount option which allows longer command line lengths
than windows provides. I don't know if it would also work on msys.
cgf