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

[Simon Levitt]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 02:33, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> $(libgcj_la_OBJECTS) expands to a huge list of objects, and so make
> fails while trying to execute sh to run this line, before libtool is
> even called.
>
When I was building it all I did wonder why the la line worked and the link 
failed.

It's occuring to me that it might be a function of the path underwhich its 
being built, so in my case the command gets truncated (by amasing luck) just 
after a full filename, so the command actually works but with less files 
passed to it.

That in turn I suppose may mean my built libgcj.a doesn't contain all the 
files it should! But I can't say I've noticed that!

> I tried both MinGW make and MSYS make, but both of those didn't work at all
> for  other reasons I have not investigated.
>
I'm using MSYS make. But your probably right in that it makes little 
difference.

Simon.,
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