bug#7333: [PATCH] {maint} Fix a bug in variable concatanation with `+='.

merge 7333 7345 tags 7333 + patch close 7333 v1.11-222-g7a020d6 thanks * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:26:52PM CET: > Now, should I also try to close the bug #7333 on debbugs? > The instruction at seems > quite clear about how to do so,

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:03:59PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. > > The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really > > large) for maximum arg

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

* Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:01:12PM CET: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Also, we wrote a short section in the manual about this (in recent > > versions): > > info Automake "Length Limitations" > > I hadn't seen that, before. N

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:56:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > [1] On some systems this is not true; e.g., GNU make evades the limit on > MSYS for this particular point, IIRC using a response file. Can automake do something similar? The dist files are always the same (well, they should be), so

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 21:01 +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. > The libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really > large) for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily > executed the "distd

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: > > I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions > > and proposed solutions related to this problem: > > > > - Split up file lists s

Re: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:55:45PM CET: > I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions > and proposed solutions related to this problem: > > - Split up file lists so several rules are generated: > http://lists.gnu.org/arc

How to structure a GNU scientific project

I'm trying to organize the directory and file structure of my project and figure out how everything should be installed in a way that complies with the GCS and FHS.  Currently, my project provides several command line binary executables that do some numerical number crunching using GNU GSL.  The in

Re: Copy files in VPATH build

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jason Curl wrote: * On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jason Curl  wrote: > When building my package with "./configure" everything works well as > some datafiles that are required for tests are in the

execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

Hi, I looked through the mailing list archives and found several questions and proposed solutions related to this problem: - Split up file lists so several rules are generated: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2004-11/msg00106.html - "What is your env's size?" http://lists.gnu.

Re: Copy files in VPATH build

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jason Curl wrote: >>> * On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Jason Curl  wrote: When building my package with "./configure" everything works well as some datafiles that are required for tests are in the correct place (my tests don't need to be installed with