Re: Improving maximum command line length detection (Was: Re: [PATCH] Removal of obsolete AmigaOS support)

[Peter O'Gorman]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> there were no replys on the ammended method. If anyone objects to me 
> putting in an 8K test string into libtool's libtool.m4 please do it now, 
> before I start learning m4 ;)

I object, mostly because I think you'll find that the time taken to do
testring=$testring$testring is insignificant compared to all the time 
spent doing string compares, getting the string length, exec'ing the 
script over etc.

If you want to start off with a bigger string then make it bigger in a 
loop. Something like:
for p in 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ; do
testring=$testring$testring
done

And put that before the real testing max_cmd_length loop.

Peter