Sisyphus wrote: > I thought different. To me a "command line" is something that's entered at a > prompt, and whilst makefiles contain commands, I've never thought of them as > containing "command lines". But thinking about the numbers involved (ie > 8192), I'm starting to think that your interpretation might be more to the > point than mine :-) The CreateProcess() limitation is actually 32k characters, so I'm not sure exactly where this 8192 limit is coming from. I have read in the past where linking particularly large libraries (like libgcj) runs into this 32k limit, and the workaround is cygexec (or --enable-libgcj-multifile). It seems like something else is imposing this 8k limit - and since the poster did not mention the details of his environment (cygwin, MSYS/mingw, etc) we probably won't know for sure. It might be that some autoconf test somewhere just uses 8k if it detects it's running under mingw, or something. Brian
