On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 19:26 +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > At Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:41 +0200, > Christian Maeder wrote: > > > > Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > > > Wed Oct 8 08:44:10 PDT 2008 Clemens Fruhwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Also respect the max. command line size in Makefile driven builds > > > > > > M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -7 +13 > > > M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.hs -1 +1 > > > M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.in -1 +1 > > > > > > View patch online: > > > http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20081008154410-ed0c4-33d531c4ead53107e5447792adc7f251dab605d2.gz > > > > > > > I think passing -s to xargs in Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.in is a > > bad idea (as long as max-cmd-line-size is not determined) and was > > removed some time ago! > > What was the rational? It seems to break any reasonably large package > built with split-objs under Windows. > > And why isn't the correct solution to this to determine the max > command line size?
I thought that xargs knew how big the command line args should be, even on windows. You're saying that without specifying -s, xargs on windows still fails with too long command line args? Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
