On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> The MAKE_LONG_LIST function generates a file with all of the contents >> of the long MAKE variable, one element per line. > > So, I think the behavior you're seeing is correct (unless I just don't > understand the problem you're describing). > > If you read the original email you'll see he then uses xargs to group > the generated file into multiple files at a time. > > The "500" in the original message, as I understand it, is NOT the number > of elements printed to the same line of the output file. Rather, it's > the number of elements that can appear in a single instance of the > printf function, internally.
That's what I don't understand. Why does that matter since only one element is used per line? My problem started when I had a list of over 4000 (4067, to be exact) object files to be deleted, and "-rm $(OBJ)" failed. The I used the solution which worked great. However, the generated file is also 4067 lines long so I can't see that the iteration is doing anything. If it isn't, then there might be a little simplification possible (if I could get my brain around the macros and functions). Thanks for responding, Paul. -Tom _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
