Follow-up Comment #5, bug #41246 (project make):
I'm not sure I like the idea of this being a special target in this way. It's
also possible that something like this COULD be used on UNIX systems; there
are limits to the size of command lines that can be invoked. On newer systems
like Linux
Update of bug #40790 (project make):
Status:None = Fixed
Open/Closed:Open = Closed
Operating System:None = POSIX-Based
Fixed Release:
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Paul D. Smith invalid.nore...@gnu.org wrote:
There are limits to the size of command lines that can be invoked. On newer
systems
like Linux that limit is pretty large (I think it's 16K or so on Linux) but it
exists, and on other systems it's much less.
It's
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #41246 (project make):
The command line size limit is in the order of several megabytes nowadays on
Linux. It used to be much less, though. Arguably, if this was a wanted
feature, you would likely have heard people complain when the command line
size limit was lower.
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #41246 (project make):
I just realized I said something very wrong: BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL is not all
all like ONESHELL. It still runs a shell per recipe line. Sorry for the
confusion.
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Follow-up Comment #8, bug #41246 (project make):
I understood that difference; that's why I said The downside of this is that
ONESHELL actually behaves differently. However often this doesn't matter so
much, particularly on Windows where the rules about what operations impact the
parent's
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #41246 (project make):
Also we do sometimes see people complaining about this, where they can't
invoke commands because the command line is too long. There are various
tricks out there for chunking make variable values containing lots and lots
of words into smaller
URL:
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Summary: wildcard function does not return newly created file
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Sun 19 Jan 2014 04:12:03 AM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
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