ma wrote:
I have a make file that is automatically generated. It that makefile, I
have a variable that is very long. It is around 88K long. When I am trying
to pass it to any function (ar for example), the operating system complains
that the command line is too long. The other way is to put this variable in
a text file and call ar in this way:
ar @a.txt
The problem is I don't know how I can write this variable into a file? I
can't use something such as echo $(Long_Var) >a.txt since then the command
line to echo is too long. Is there any way that I can do in gmake? Is there
any function in gmake that help to write a variable into a file?
You could output the variable word by word to a file:
words = a b c d
foo :
@for w in $(words); do echo -n "$$w " >> $@; done
And then feed the words from the file to ar as command line arguments
using xarg utility.
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