At Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:09:42 -0700,
Lawrence Ibarria wrote:
I have often hit problems with the limit of command line lengths
many shells have (CMD.EXE in Windows in my case).
This is a common case with few solutions, I have searched around:
http://www.makelinux.net/make3/make3-CHP-5-SECT-6
You didn't CC the list
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I use the foreach trick and it utterly sucks. It's complicated and
tends to execute the shell 10x more than it needs to. For small
makefiles it doesn't matter but doing this for compiles (e.g. the ARM
RVCT's multifile compilation option) in a large
At Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:36:26 +0100,
Tim Murphy wrote:
My apologies to Luke for forgetting reply to all and for forgetting
my manners by using the word sucks when I should not have.
Now it's my turn to apologize, I just forwarded your original message
to me to the list. Sorry.
dumpOneLine =
I find your suggestions more elagant than the original, they seem more
general purpose, and less let's introduce this feature to get around
a specific problem. Of your two suggestions, I'd favor the withfile
option, it would be both more powerful, and doesn't introduce the
problem of trying
