To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Link Woes solved (command line length)
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 01:07:01 EST
Organization: Disorganization

Mark Bergman <src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!panix.com!bergman> writes:

> As it turns out (as reported via gcc -v), only some file names (either
> 11 or 12 of the 13, depending on the length of the names of the last
> three files) were being passed to the linker.
> 
> I'm used to a Unix environment, and have the MKS Toolkit on my DOS box.
> The Kornshell allows command lines up to 8K. I hadn't encountered a
> command-line-length problem in ages!
> 
> Why do GCC, and I presume the other binaries, have this limitation? If
> the "normal" environment (MS-DOS shell) imposes a limit, why not just
> take as many characters as you are handed (the GNU way) and let the
> shell impose it's own limitation?

DJ's gcc supports the standard MS-DOG syntax of command @filename
to pass the command line in the contents of "filename". I suggest you
modify your makefile to take advantage of this. I have had this same
problem with Borland C++ when just the compiler options alone got too
long to even get one filename on the command line, and this is how
I got out of it.

Happy hacking.


alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
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