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From: Andreas Zell <zell@imageaccess.de>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] env size limit
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:42:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bcf4671-9897-4c65-89c9-7a8a6a57bdc9@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370910271421i4e609564ie155bc1a8dfdca7c@mail.gmail.com>

On 28 Okt., 10:42, rtrli...@googlemail.com (Robert Raschke) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/10/27 erik quanstrom <quans...@coraid.com>:
> > > On Tue Oct 27 12:52:52 EDT 2009, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote:
> > >> the environment variable size limit is set to 16300 bytes which
> > >> seems rather small; for instance it can break mkfiles for large
> > projects.
>
> > >> might a patch specifying a larger size limit (e.g. 128K) be accepted?
>
> > > you need a single variable that's bigger than 16300 bytes?
>
> > > - erik
>
> yes.
>
>
>
> > for instance when there are a few thousand source files
> > and one wants to link them all.
>
> Use libraries!
>
> Robby

Hmm,

ar cr libfile.a $(A_FEW_THOUSEND_OBJECT_FILES)

AZ



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 16:49 roger peppe
2009-10-27 19:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-27 21:21   ` roger peppe
2009-10-28  9:38     ` Robert Raschke
2009-10-29  9:42     ` Andreas Zell [this message]
2009-10-29 10:11       ` Robert Raschke
2009-10-29 11:35       ` Andreas Zell

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