Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:41:52AM CEST: > GCC has this: > > # write_entries_to_file - writes each entry in a list [...] > Maybe you can unfunctionize it and do something like > > write_entries_to_file = echo $(DISTFILES) | tr ' ' '\n' > DISTFILES.list > > write_entries_to

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-30 Thread Xan Lopez
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:41:52AM CEST: >> >I'll take this up with bug-make.  Thank you again for bringing it up. >> >> GCC has this: > > Yes, I know.  (I didn't write that code originally, but I worked o

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
I'll take this up with bug-make. Thank you again for bringing it up. GCC has this: # write_entries_to_file - writes each entry in a list # to the specified file. Entries are written in chunks of # $(write_entries_to_file_split) to accomodate systems with # severe command-line-length limitatio

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paolo, * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:41:52AM CEST: > >I'll take this up with bug-make. Thank you again for bringing it up. > > GCC has this: Yes, I know. (I didn't write that code originally, but I worked on it). Thanks for the pointer though. It's one way we can go for

Re: 'Argument list too long' in non-recursive setup

2009-07-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-automake as a reminder for the distdir.am TODO item; this is ] Hello Xan, * Xan Lopez wrote on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:15:31AM CEST: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Xan Lopez wrote: > >> On Linux before 2.6.23(?),