Re: command line limit in mingw-make

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:28:13 +0100
> From: Joe Burmeister <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > I have removed the " character from sh_chars_dos and it works.
> > I can now build qt5 qtwebkit which has really long command lines (around
> > 12000 characters long). Also, quoted filenames that have spaces still
> > work fine in Makefiles.
> >
> > Could this be change applied to CVS?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonathan
> 
> The other got ya with qt5 is windres.exe.
> It uses MS's popen, which calls cmd.exe and thus introduces a 8k limit.
> This would mean qtdeclarative wouldn't build for me.
> My solution was to change windres.exe to use a custom popen on Windows, 
> one that calls CreateProcess with the command line directly, accessing 
> the higher 32k limit.
> 
> Anyway, really pleased there is progress on this. :-)

Progress report: I've made the change in my private copy of Make.  If
I see no problems with this in a couple of weeks, I will commit the
change to CVS.