Issue 1821 in lilypond: GUB argument list too long

[lilypond]

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New issue 1821 by percival.music.ca: GUB argument list too long
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1821

trying to build lilypond-test results in this:

make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long
make[2]: *** [out-test/collated-files.tely] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory  
`/main/src/gub/target/linux-x86/build/lilypond-git.sv.gnu.org--lilypond.git-release-unstable/input/regression'
make[1]: *** [local-test] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory  
`/main/src/gub/target/linux-x86/build/lilypond-git.sv.gnu.org--lilypond.git-release-unstable/input/regression'
make: *** [test] Error 2


I think it's literally that we have too many regression test files to fit  
into the current allowable file size.

Suggestions?  GUB uses separate shells to compile stuff, so we might be  
able to feed some options to
  gub/specs/lilypond-test.py
to fix it.

I'm busy running GOP and without physical access to that machine, so I'm  
not offering to investigate this myself.  If it's still on the books on  
2011 Aug 30, I may take a look.
FWIW, I've been building everything on stable-2.14, since the GUB master  
branch is broken for me.  Again, I may investigate that again on 2011 Aug  
30.