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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:42:25 +0000
From: Andreas Zell <zell@imageaccess.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] env size limit
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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)

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