Aw: Re: depot/extract: make: execvp: bash: Argument list too long

[ttcoder at netcourrier.com]

This will probably be of little to no help (or maybe as inspiration ?) since we're talking gmake here, but I'll mention in passing that in other build tools there is sometimes support for a "piecemeal" modifier for compilation units : this modifier instructs the build tool to repeatedly invoke the compilation/build unit with a subset of parameters small enough to fit the OS buffer size (e.g. 2048 bytes) : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jam+redux+%22piecemeal%22&t=ffab&ia=web

Cedric

> De : Uwe <geno.de at public-files.de>
> Sujet : Aw: Re: depot/extract: make: execvp: bash: Argument list too long
> 
> > In my opinion a proper fix that prevents exceeding command line
> > arguments is much appreciated and could serve as valuable blueprint in
> > other places too. It sounds like the issue needs a mechanism similar
> > to the xargs tool.
> How about using exactly that, `xargs`? It should be easy to do some $(for 
> ...)
> in make to put the arguments in some temporary file, and xargs -1 can 
> extract
> them line by line. Or we could develop some patch for xargs that allows the