make(1) guru question

2004-04-06 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
Fellow hackers, suppose you have a long list of files in a make variable V, exceeding kern.argmax. This means there is no way you can write a rule where $(V) is a command argument in any way shape or form. There is also no way to pass the value of V to xargs that I know of. For example with this

Re: make(1) guru question

2004-04-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: Fellow hackers, suppose you have a long list of files in a make variable V, exceeding kern.argmax. This means there is no way you can write a rule where $(V) is a command argument in any way shape or form. There is also no

Re: make(1) guru question

2004-04-06 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: Fellow hackers, suppose you have a long list of files in a make variable V, exceeding kern.argmax. This means there is no way you can write a rule where $(V)