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

2010-11-12 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:54:35PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: In other words, I can't make dist even with GNU make 3.82? What do you suggest, then? Well, you could try my patch from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs/4219 (append /raw to the URL to get it unmangled).

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

2010-11-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Pippijn, * Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:11:20PM CET: 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

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

2010-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
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 distdir target when copied into a bash

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

2010-11-09 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:37:24AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: 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

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

2010-11-09 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:11:20PM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: make distdir fails. The Makefile.am is not a single file. A combined file is here: http://paste.xinu.at/ou4jy/, but I'm not sure that is very useful. A tarball with all .am files is here: http://paste.xinu.at/TzadQ/ In

execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
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?

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

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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:

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

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
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 so

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

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Smith
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 distdir

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

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
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

2010-11-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* 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. Now I read

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

2010-11-08 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
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 argument