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Re: Fix multi-file installation for files in srcdir.


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Fix multi-file installation for files in srcdir.
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:22:14 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:20:06AM CEST:
> This patch lowers the limit to 40 files installed.  I figured 80 bytes
> for `$(srcdir)/' plus relative file name were reasonable, plus maybe a
> few hundred for `$(DESTDIR)$(foodir)', which brings us to roughly 3500.
> Leaves 600 for the environment, to stay below the POSIX minimum limit of
> 4096.  Not much, but if you're on such a challenged system--dunno if any
> of those are in use any more--you can still build in-tree.

Hmm.  Maybe this is overkill.

How portable is 'xargs -t -I{} ... {}'?

Thanks,
Ralf




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