* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:20:06AM CEST: > This patch lowers the limit to 40 files installed. I figured 80 bytes > for `$(srcdir)/' plus relative file name were reasonable, plus maybe a > few hundred for `$(DESTDIR)$(foodir)', which brings us to roughly 3500. > Leaves 600 for the environment, to stay below the POSIX minimum limit of > 4096. Not much, but if you're on such a challenged system--dunno if any > of those are in use any more--you can still build in-tree.
Hmm. Maybe this is overkill. How portable is 'xargs -t -I{} ... {}'? Thanks, Ralf