Bootstrap difficulties on powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)

[Peter O'Gorman]

Andrew Haley wrote:


> But this doesn't really matter, because although the shell may be able
> to read very long lines, there's no reason to suggest that the linker
> will be able to handle them.  We need to fix this bug, one way or
> another.

As far as I know the kernel on Mac OS X 10.2 and earlier supported 64KB 
command lines 10.3 supports 256KB.

There is code in GNU libtool to shorten overly long command lines using ld 
-r, or use a linker script if using GNU ld, this should probably be taken 
into gcc, along with proper command line length checking.

Peter
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