Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch

2013-09-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 07:28 +, Edward Welbourne wrote: I've never understood why someone would use $(shell ...) in a recipe... I mean, the recipe will be run in the shell!! I remember we once had a library where the command-line to the archiver was too long (about a quarter megabyte,

Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch

2013-09-21 Thread Edward Welbourne
No, that wouldn't work. It's not the individual command (between simicolons) that's too long, the problem is that make can't invoke the shell itself because the command line + environment is too large. The only way to work around this limitation is to avoid invoking a single command that's

Re: make check on darwin

2013-09-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 23:46 +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote: I have configured with --disable-load. I had to apply the patch below (self explanatory i think) for 'make check' to return with no error. Moreover: 1) when configured with --disable-job-server, the tests in features/parallelism are