Re: Argument list too long

2006-12-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Long, Phillip GOSS on 12/3/2006 8:48 PM: > What is SHELL set to in your environment? If it's not set to /bin/bash, > it's may be defaulting to CMD.EXE, which has a line-length limitation, > whereas bash (and I'm guessing most other shells

RE: Argument list too long

2006-12-03 Thread Long, Phillip GOSS
-Original Message- > From: Michael Eager > Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:30 PM > To: Cygwin > Subject: Argument list too long > > I get the error message "argument list too long" > while building GCC on certain Cgywin installations, but not all. This happens when make executes a co

Re: Argument list too long [FAQ Possibility]

2005-01-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:46:37 -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > Seems like this is asked about often enough to be in the FAQ. We try not to include general Unix questions in the FAQ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: Argument list too long [FAQ Possibility]

2005-01-06 Thread Sean Daley
I've noticed the 32K limitation for a long time now (few years at least). Never really thought too much about it though because I also assumed that it was because lpCommandLine in CreateProcess() maxed out at 32,000 characters (at least according to the msdn documentation). Of course, that assump

RE: Argument list too long [FAQ Possibility]

2005-01-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Seems like this is asked about often enough to be in the FAQ. At Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:09 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: > >> At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote: >>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: >>> I am providing grep with a long list of

Re: Argument list too long

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: > At 10:26 AM 1/5/2005, you wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: > > > > > I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with > > > about 80K characters. > > > > > > I get the following > > > > > > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list to

Re: Argument list too long

2005-01-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Emil Rojas wrote: > I am providing grep with a long list of files, e.g. 1200 files with > about 80K characters. > > I get the following > > bash: /bin/grep: Argument list too long > > If I reduce the total characters to less then 32K it works fine. This > list is a list of the