I have tried splitting the 32K line into 400 or so 80-char lines ending with backslash-newline (except the last, of course) and "make" still could not fork. I think the limit is the *logical* length of the args line, not the *physical* length.
Actually, I meant create multiple targets, all less than 1k in size, then have one dependency that makes all of those targets. Continuation characters won't help us here, since the buffer in the 'make' is too small. It may be sufficient to create 4 8k lines...
John
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