Re: cwrapper generates long strings.

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter,

On 1 Oct 2010, at 18:28, Peter Rosin wrote:
> In my case the string is 3400+ characters which is too much for MSVC 6,
> but this appears to not be really compiler specific, and I can easily
> imagine other compilers with other arbitrary (and possibly standardized)
> limits.
> 
> One thing that could be done is to only have the PATH once, but that is
> not a real fix.
> 
> Should we worry about my insane case?  I didn't intend to have such a long
> PATH, it has many duplicate entries due to repeated PATH="/foo:$PATH".


Normalising PATH and not repeating it on the command line certainly can't
do any harm... and will at least mitigate the probability of hitting your
failure.  IMHO.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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