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

["Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron77thyme at aaronwl dot com>]

Simon Levitt wrote:

> 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.

Can you tell me exactly how you did this?  I've tried modifying both all
instances of max_cmd_len in libjava/dlltool, and modifying ltconfig
directly, all before configuring and building, and it does not seem to
stop make from attempting to pass that huge command line.

Aaron W. LaFramboise