On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 8 May 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >> > >On 5/6/05, J?rgen 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, J?rgen): >> >> 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.
Rather than theorize about what's needed, why not actually *try it*? I don't know which of the above is needed but I doubt that all of them are. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/