Cygwin failure with large number of sources

[Christopher Hulbert]

I don't think this is a libtool bug, but I thought I would not this.

I was compiling a library with 1635 object files into a static
archive.  The cygwin command shell fails with:

     5 [main] sh 3668 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork:
can't reserve memory for stack 0x23E660 - 0x240000, Win32 error 487
     6 [main] sh 2896 child_copy: stack write copy failed,
0x23E660..0x240000, done 0, windows pid 2352532, Win32 error 5
../libtool: fork: No error
make: *** [libvsip.la] Error 129


This seems to be correlated with so many object files. I remember
seeing libtool at one point somewhere else trying to do partial
linking.  Would there be a way to do something similar when there are
so many object files?  Currently After it fails I just manually go
into the directory and run ar cru .libs/libvsip.a *.o and it seems to
work fine.

libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool 1.2309 2006/06/12 17:54:15) 2.1a
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