Agreed. I actually looked into doing this once briefly (primarily to reduce
link time), but it looked like it wasn't going to be trivial, so I punted.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The best solution, in my view, would be to link the various subdirectories
> into static libraries, libbase.a etc, and do so independent of the ISA
> that is being built. Everything besides the arch and dev tree should then
> be able to be built once, and the linking also ends up being hierarchical.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 13/04/2017, 17:50, "gem5-dev on behalf of Gabe Black"
> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Oh, I bet you're right. They actually spawn something like 'sh', '-c', '
> >'.join(args), and I bet sh (which is symlinked to /bin/bash) is blowing up
> >because the command line is very long. I remember my terminal asking if I
> >really wanted to copy/paste something like 129K characters when trying to
> >copy the command line to run it outside of scons.
> >
> >Now to figure out how to fix it...
> >
> >On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Beckmann, Brad <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Have you investigated the length of the linker command when building
> >>from
> >> outside the gem5 directory?  In the past, we've seen that mysterious
> >>error
> >> 127 because the linker stage uses a shell command length that exceeds
> >>the
> >> length supported by the OS.  64KB I believe.  I suspect that the
> >>filenames
> >> are longer when building outside of gem5, thus it only happens in that
> >> situation.  The linker command may be shorter using clang as well.
> >>
> >> Brad
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gem5-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabe
> >>Black
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 1:53 AM
> >> To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [gem5-dev] scons question
> >>
> >> Hi folks. I'm fighting with a very confusing problem with scons at the
> >> moment. For reasons I haven't determined, when I have things set up to
> >> build when scons is run from outside the gem5 directory (using -C), it
> >> fails the final linker step with error 127 and no other output 100% of
> >>the
> >> time. If I run from within the gem5 directory everything works fine.
> >>
> >> I did some reading, and bash reports error 127 when it can't find the
> >> command you asked it to run. To determine if that might be the problem,
> >>I
> >> modified scons to run "which" on each command it was about to spawn
> >>before
> >> it did, to make sure it resolved to something. That worked just fine.
> >>If I
> >> run the command manually, it returns exit code 0. If I take the
> >>environment
> >> scons tries to run g++ under and partially duplicate that with a script
> >>and
> >> env -i, it still succeeds.
> >>
> >> If I run with clang instead of g++, I get the same behavior which makes
> >>me
> >> think it's not g++ doing something weird, it's scons. I can't for the
> >>life
> >> of me figure out what though, and I can't seem to get any information to
> >> work with other than this mysterious error 127.
> >>
> >> If any of you have any idea why it's doing what it's doing, or if
> >>there's
> >> any information I can gather that might help, I would be very happy to
> >>hear
> >> it.
> >>
> >> Gabe
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