Re: check for max cmd line length

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 25 June 2001  5:20 pm, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > > Please don't check for this on the Hurd, (*-gnu*), but just set it
> > > to any maximum value you need.
> >
> > Hmm.. I can't decide if this is good news or not. ;)  I think what
> > needs to be done is to add some mechanism for telling Libtool
> > that there is no maximum.  That would involve a check for Hurd
> > and setting a flag in configury, then in the libtool script
> > checks that skip the piecewise linking if the flag is set.
>
> That, or you could just set some high default in AC_LIBTOOL_SYS_MAX_CMD_LEN
> (say, 256K, as it seems fairly unlikely that would be hit often) the
> same way a default is now set for DJGPP (where the test would otherwise
> blow up the system).

I deliberately fiddled Tim's patch for DJGPP with the hurd problem in mind... 
I was just waiting to find this thread again while working through the couple 
of hundred I have marked for attention before 1.4b is released.

However, I don't want to blindly patch libtool if it a) masks a bug elsewhere 
in libtool, b) masks a bug in the hurd.  

Marcus, making this change in libtool is now a no-brainer, but we'll await 
your verdict on whether this is the the Right Thing To Do, or whether it is a 
bug elsewhere that you are seeing before we do anything else.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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