Re: coping with large shell commands in make(1)

2023-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 02:25:19PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I did not point you in this direction, not at all. Oh you did. It was not intentional. But I was focused on make variables instead of trying to catch the error, and you redirected me towards execv proper. > I said make execve

Re: coping with large shell commands in make(1)

2023-08-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
I did not point you in this direction, not at all. I said make execve failure report an accurate error. Rather than requiring a special hook which will report the problem. Meaning if the problem areas were known, they could be coped with. What I'm seeing here appears to be a thing like

coping with large shell commands in make(1)

2023-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
Theo pointed me in another direction Proof of concept that appears to work just fine (very minimal error checking so far) Of course, if we end up running a command on somethin too large, thi will fail as usual, but much to my surprise, make show=_FULL_FETCH_LIST in sysutils/telegraf worked with