From Ben Bennet (Fri, 30 May 2003 15:24:13 -0400)
>OK, it looks like it is bombing because of all of the modules to
>install... each timezone module looks like:
>
>TO_INST_PM =
> DateTime/Timezone/yada_yada.pm \
> ...
>
>Repeat that for a few hundred lines and you overflow their feeble
>make.
>
>This is a tough problem to solve... the easiest thing might be to try
>gnu make since that appears to be smart enough to handle arbitrarily
>long strings. The fix probably needs to occur in MakeMaker though...
>Might be worth dropping them an email with the example.
>
> -ben
I have a similar problem with make for cygwin (can't tell the version, it
is on my day job machine and I am at home now). make for cygwin can create
the command but cannot fork it because of the 32K parameter line.
The workaround I used was to type
make -n > make-n.sh
then edit make-n.sh to replace the 32K line
-e "yada yada yada"
by calling a make-n.pl Perl script, which contains one 32K line.
May be a new item in the FAQ could be sufficient...
Jean Forget
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No Good Whining."
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