Re: OS/2: command-line length limit

[KO Myung-Hun]

Hi/2.

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * KO Myung-Hun wrote on Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 01:20:38PM CET:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> * KO Myung-Hun wrote on Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 07:20:32AM CET:
>>>> --- libltdl/m4/libtool.m4.org      2010-09-22 17:41:18.000000000 +0900
>>>> +++ libltdl/m4/libtool.m4  2010-11-27 16:03:50.000000000 +0900
>>>> @@ -1624,6 +1624,9 @@
>>>>        lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=32768
>>>>      fi
>>>>      ;;
>>>> +  os2*)
>>>> +    lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=-1
>>>> +    ;;
>>>>    *)
>>>>      lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=`(getconf ARG_MAX) 2> /dev/null`
>>>>      if test -n "$lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len"; then
>>>
>>> Is there really no maximum for the command line length on OS/2?
>>
>> It depends on a shell. I know, a default shell, cmd.exe, has 1024 length
>> limit. But 4OS2.exe has other limit.
>> In case of pdksh which is used really, it seems to have no limits.
>> Although a computed length by libtool is 8192, it could handle a longer
>> command line than 8192.
> 
> Well, what the Libtool macros do is compute a limit (that depends on
> your current environment), and then only take a fraction of that, half
> or so, to cope with additional environment.  If it computes 8192, then
> chances are that your actual limit is not all that much higher.
> 
> Does the computation of the limit take very long?  

Unfortunately, yes. It takes very long time. It's the one of the parts
where it takes the most of configure time.

>> When porting VLC to OS/2, qt4 module needed a very long command line. So
>> libtool try to create a reload object. The maximum length was 8192 at
>> that time. Setting it to -1 does not need a reload object.
> 
> Does using the reload object work, or does it fail?

It depends on a output type.

OS/2 gcc can generate two output type. One is a.out, the other is OMF.

When using a.out, ld.exe is used for linkage. In this case, the reloaded
objects work well.

When using OMF, however, OMF linker does not understand the reloaded
objects by ld.exe.

In addition, a debug build can be created by OMF only.

So if possible, I want to avoid the situation using reloaded objects.

-- 
KO Myung-Hun

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