Cygwin / MSYS Command-Line-Length Issues? (was Re: GC Problems...)

[Andrew Haley]

Simon Levitt writes:
 > 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.

OK.  We should get a patch in for this.

 > I'm incredibly impressed with the whole lot. I really didn't expect the whole 
 > GCJ environment to work as well as it has under Win32 when I suggested it as 
 > a technological solution to a problem we had.... 

Excellent.

Andrew.