On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/10/27 erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>:
> > On Tue Oct 27 12:52:52 EDT 2009, rogpeppe@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