On Sun, 8 May 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > >On 5/6/05, Jørgen Havsberg Seland wrote: > > >> This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the > > >> windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the > > >> executable using the -X switch. For instance, use > > > > > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:11:39PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > >I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few times. Any > > >problem with replacing this ancient entry about MAKE_MODE (which is > > >covered in the User's Guide)? > > > > > >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC93 > > > On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Fine with me. > > Updated with the following text (thanks, Jørgen): > > Errors of `make: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument' or `make: execvp: > /bin/sh: Argument list too long' are often caused by the command-line > being to long for the Windows execution model. To circumvent this, > mount the path of the executable using the -X switch to enable cygexec > for all executables in that folder; you will also need to exclude > non-cygwin executables with the -x switch. Enabling cygexec causes > cygwin executables to talk directly to one another, which increases > the command-line limit. To enable cygexec for `/bin' and `/usr/bin', > you can use these commands in a batch file: > > mount -X -b -f c:\cygwin\bin /bin > mount -X -b -f c:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin > mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /usr/bin/strace.exe > mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /bin/strace.exe > mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe /usr/bin/cygcheck.exe > mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe /bin/cygcheck.exe > > Note that you must specifically exclude strace and cygcheck, which are > not linked to the Cygwin DLL.
Unless I'm mistaken, you'll also need to mention that invoking /bin/cygcheck and /bin/strace (and /usr/bin/cygcheck, and /usr/bin/strace) won't work with the above -- you'll need to also add mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /usr/bin/strace mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\strace.exe /bin/strace mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe /usr/bin/cygcheck mount -x -b -f c:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe /bin/cygcheck to be able to omit the .exe extension. Igor > (See http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount for > more information.) -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
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