Update on this issue...
'xargs' on Solaris is hopelessly brain-dead. Even though the O/S supports a
command line length of 1MB, 'xargs' refuses to allow a command line length in
excess of 2K. If you specify something like:
xargs -s 50000 ls < tmpfile
you get:
xargs: 0 < max-cmd-line-size <= 2048: 50000
Yuck! So, the XARGS_LEN option is of zero worth, and I'm dropping it.
However, with the $(XARGS) variable, you can point make to a __better__
implementation of xargs. This is how we solved the problem in our build
environment.
Reid
> Date: 7 Nov 2000 09:06:29 -0600
> From: Reid Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Not so. On Solaris, the xargs implementation limits the command line to 2K.
> Not very useful IMO.
>
> Reid
>
> > From: "Howard Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:19:26 -0800
> >
> > I would omit the XARGS LEN. Presumably the local platform's xargs command is
> > already properly configured for the native system's line length limitations.
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