Re: Issue 1821 in lilypond: GUB argument list too long

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> Comment #7 on issue 1821 by percival.music.ca: GUB argument list too long
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1821
>
> by sheer fluke, I just tried running stuff without using GNU screen,
> and it appears to have passed this stage!
>
> I took a very quick look but didn't see anything immediately in google
> about GNU screen imposing a lower argument list, but does this sound
> plausible to anybody?

No.  It is a terminal emulator, not a shell.  It is not involved with
passing arguments from make to the shell.  While there are theoretically
commands like ls that may look at the number of available columns for
formatting, they do this only when writing output to a tty rather than a
file or pipe.

So no, not plausible.  More likely is, say, a different length of $PWD
when creating absolute paths since one went through different symbolic
links on the command line (or something called pwd itself with a
differing result for establishing $PWD).

Even more likely is that the length of the list of dependencies got
shorter because of touched files.

-- 
David Kastrup