Hello Christian > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 21:48:31 CEST, Roman Iten wrote: >> The arguments for the `make`-command assembled by the rule >> `checked_ports_exists` can get quite long for many archives even though >> it doesn't contain any duplicates.
More precisely, the culprit is the generation of `gen_missing_ports.mk`, see [1]. On 08.06.21 09:29, Christian Helmuth wrote: > I did not encounter this issue before despite I use meta pkgs > sometimes. Does this happen only with PREPARE_PORTS=1? No, it happens in both cases. As far as I understand, the check for missing ports doesn't depend on this variable - which is good because otherwise, I guess there will be hard to decipher error messages if a required port isn't prepared. > In my opinion a proper fix that prevents exceeding command line > arguments is much appreciated and could serve as valuable blueprint in > other places too. It sounds like the issue needs a mechanism similar > to the xargs tool. I'm not very experienced with make, and writing makefiles using make is way out of my "comfort zone" ;) Although conceptually it suffers from the same flaw, this workaround [2] works for our use case for now. Thanks for everyone's advice, Roman [1] https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/blob/c0150f97e524bdb90ad455ac0837c400e864e508/tool/depot/mk/extract_post_dependencies.inc#L86 [2] https://github.com/rite/genode/commit/1753574d3d0484520688872b84f4e241b2965cca
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