I have often hit problems with the limit of command line lengths many shells have (CMD.EXE in Windows in my case). This is a common case with few solutions, I have searched around:
http://www.makelinux.net/make3/make3-CHP-5-SECT-6 I would like to propose a couple new functions in make that can help work around this problem. $(dumpOneLine filename, $(list)) $(dumpOnePerLine filename, $(list)) The idea here is to ask make to dump into a file (either on a single line or each element of the list in a new line) all the contents of a list. This function specifically does not use the shell, I expect make to implement it with fopen directly. Once all the contents of a long list in make are in a file, programs (such as linker, or compiler) can use that file as input. I do not know how to address specifics such as variable expansion on the list (I'd suggest no variable expansion at all, create a new list for that). What do you think? -- Lawrence
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