All, Thanks a lot for your help and your fast replies. It's really pleasant to work with such a responsive community. I think the best way for me would be to try the re-integrate the changes done in the mainline to support @file into my GCC sources (3.4.0). For information, I am using MinGW on Windows XP Pro and the 8192 Bytes limitation comes from there (if my understanding is correct): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830473 Regards, David On 11/18/05, Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >
