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

Mohan Embar gnustuff@thisiscool.com
Mon Sep 13 17:28:00 GMT 2004


Hi All,

> > 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.

Come to think of it, I have a vague recollection from the days I used to
try to build on Win32 that configury incorrectly calculated the command
line length based on information it was getting from Cygwin / MSYS bash,
so this may not be a gcj problem.

-- Mohan
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