Hi John,
> It builds a single filelist file that's 760+ lines, 8300+
> words in size in the format:
> VCS_OBS =5NrI_d.o 5NrIB_d.o lOsn_1_d.o ... \
> .... \
> .... \
> which just causes problems.
>
> The compile and final link works sometimes, but fails other
> times because the argument list passed by make is too long,
> it hits the ARGS_MAX limit on linux. This works just fine on
> Solaris since they're limit is around 2mb, while on Linux
> it's just 128k.
The compiler that we're using is a 1997 DOS compiler which behaves a bit
strange sometimes. And even when cmd.exe accepts long arguments, the
compiler only seems to have a 127 character buffer so you're done pretty
quick with only a couple of include dirs. Because this was a common problem,
the compiler does support command/response files. You might be able to use
that if your compiler (gcc?) supports it. Just dump all the .o's (VCS_OBS)
into a temp file and feed it to the compiler if possible.
In my case:
@(ECHO) $(ALL_OBJS) > resp_file
$(CC) @resp_file
Regards,
Joost
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