On 02/27/2012 12:52 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [re-adding the relevant automake bug in CC] > > Hi Peter, thanks for chiming in. > > On 02/27/2012 12:15 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> I *think* the environment and the command line shares space (approx 64kB,
I can confirm this, based on my testing of Windows process spawning. > So, basically, on MSYS, a: > > $ make TESTS="..." > > invocation reduces the size available for the command lines of the make > recipes, because the value of TESTS that gets exported in the environment > eats away space that could be used by those command lines? Oh joy ... Yes. Unlike on *ix systems, where argv and environ are independent entities, Windows makes you deal with both limits at the same time, so increasing the size of environ reduces the size permitted in argv. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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