4.2 Project: "@file" support

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-08-25, at 13:57, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
>> On 2005-08-25, at 09:14, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>>> That's what I meant with my comment btw.  It's a horrible idea to
>>> put in all the junk to support inferior OSes into gcc and all other
>>> other programs, and with cygwin and djgpp there are already two nice
>>> enviroments for that.
>>>
>> man xargs?
>>
>
> How are you going to use xargs for
>
>    gcc -o myprog `find $dir -name "*.c"`
>
> If $dir is 50 characters long, it only takes 500 files before it  
> overflows a 32k command line.

It was meant to suggest that the supposedly inferior system just  
imposes a lower limit which exists on the other system as well. It  
was an example of "junk" in the supposedly not inferior OS. Some  
people simply apparently have gone snow blind. Perhaps because they  
where living for too long only among penguins?

> @file was a *very* useful feature when I worked on compiling  
> libjava one directory at a time.  And it solved PR20155 as well.

Yes it is *very* useful IMHO.