Re: Building under Windows: Fatal Error ... command too long

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 7, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote:

> I've put a screenshot up at:
>
> http://entropy.homelinux.org/stuff/build_error.jpg

i've run into this in the past...  it's a pointless limitation of the  
windows command shell.

i worked around it, barely, by editing generated Makefile and  
converting the FUNCLIST line from this format:

   'FUNCLIST' => [q[SvGChar], q[SvGParamFlags], ... ],

to this format:

   FUNCLIST => [qw(SvGChar SvGParamFlags ...)],

that converts the 5 chars of each "[, q[" to one space, a savings of  
4 chars per word, and there are a lot of words there.  last time i  
tried this, that was enough to get that line below the max command  
line length.

the code that generates this command line is part of the perl build  
system, and i have not looked into how to fix it correctly.

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