How to avoid Max Command line size on Windows

[Brian Dessent]

Sisyphus wrote:

> I thought different. To me a "command line" is something that's entered at a
> prompt, and whilst makefiles contain commands, I've never thought of them as
> containing "command lines". But thinking about the numbers involved (ie
> 8192), I'm starting to think that your interpretation might be more to the
> point than mine :-)

The CreateProcess() limitation is actually 32k characters, so I'm not
sure exactly where this 8192 limit is coming from.  I have read in the
past where linking particularly large libraries (like libgcj) runs into
this 32k limit, and the workaround is cygexec (or
--enable-libgcj-multifile).  It seems like something else is imposing
this 8k limit - and since the poster did not mention the details of his
environment (cygwin, MSYS/mingw, etc) we probably won't know for sure. 
It might be that some autoconf test somewhere just uses 8k if it detects
it's running under mingw, or something.

Brian