Re: coping with large shell commands in make(1)

2023-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 02:25:19PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I did not point you in this direction, not at all. Oh you did. It was not intentional. But I was focused on make variables instead of trying to catch the error, and you redirected me towards execv proper. > I said make execve failur

Re: coping with large shell commands in make(1)

2023-08-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
I did not point you in this direction, not at all. I said make execve failure report an accurate error. Rather than requiring a special hook which will report the problem. Meaning if the problem areas were known, they could be coped with. What I'm seeing here appears to be a thing like system()