Hi again :),
On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-12-28 17:56, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Hi Brian,
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
Hi folks,
Packaging bash-completion I noticed during cygport pkg running
pkg_info:__list_deps() (I think) produces the error message:
xargs: cannot fit single argument within argument list size limit
but does not stop the build or affect the results as far as I can see.
The scallywag noarch build log for 9116 showing the error message is:
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/12529311037/job/34944818784
I have attached the cygport --debug pkg.log as I can not spot which arg is
causing xargs to fail when trying to find requires for bash-completion
binary subpackage.
Hopefully if someone else has some time over the holidays they can see
what I have failed to narrow in on.
I copy/pasted the pkg.log into a temp file and took a look with vim.
(I assume Firefox is not truncating the lines...)
Starting at the line with the "xargs:" error I backed up a few lines.
The line starting with "echo" is 58029 chars long. It has many many
duplicate strings in it, FWIW.
The line starting with "xargs" is 28836 chars long. It, too, has many many
duplicate arg strings in it, though they do start with '^' and end with '$'
as reasonable for -e arg strings.
I'm not enough of a shell debugging guy to know which line-expressions are
pipe starters or pipe members, so that's as far as I can go.
Thanks Mark,
That's where I'm at too - but there are sort -u commands which should
eliminate the duplicates!?
[...useful info about arg size limits elided...]
Ah, in that case the problem seems to be that 'sort' is being handed a
single line by 'echo'. There needs to be something added to the pipe
expression to split the 'echo' result at ' ' chars. Something like:
tr ' ' '\n'
Then 'sort -u' cuts the number of arg strings from 530 down to 110.
..mark
