Jason House schrieb: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> Frank Benoit wrote: >>> DMD 1.041 on windows does support response files, that is a file >>> containing arguments. >>> On Linux dmd does not understand that. >> The windows response files date back to the problem DOS/Windows had with >> only a very short command line length was allowed. So the arguments were >> put into a file instead. >> >> It's probably a good idea to do it for Linux, too. > > Ick. Why? Command files are hacks for Window's shortcomings. Why spread such > hacks across all platforms? The linux command line is already well adapted to > handle this kind of thing.
Even in cygwin, there seems to be a 32k limit on the command line. On Linux you can find out that limit with getconf ARG_MAX (=>2097152 on my linux box) This seems to be enough, however, 32k/64k are not. There is a related bug, because the dmd response file workaround is not working with >64k, see http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2705
