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

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

muppet wrote:

> 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.
I see.
I have some swear-words saved up for just such an occasion.
Thanks muppet, I'll give it a go ASAP.

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