Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 13:12:21 +0100
From: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
To: ahelm AT email DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re:  gcc call too long (>128)

>I use gcc with a makefile containing a gcc line for every file and a final
>gcc line for linking. The number of files which should be linked becomes more
>and more and by now I have serious problems with the constraint to 128
>characters of the MS-DOS command line.
>
>1) is it possible to specify a file, containing the names of 
>   the files to be linked ?

If you are using ndmake you can say:

e.g.:

target:	$(OBJ)
	>linkfile $(OBJ)
	gcc -o target @linkfile -lm -lc



>2) is there any option to specify a directory, where to look for *.o files ?
>   (like -Ixxxx for includes) this would at least reduce the length of the
>   command line becouse I keep my *.o files in a subdirectory of my workdir.

I believe ndmake has VPATH for this.
There is also gnu make (some member of this list ported it some time ago,
I believe his name was Ygal (off memory), that's why his version was called
ygmake :) Then you could use GNU make's constructs for this (vpath %.c ...)
If you don't find it and if it's not on omnigate I can send you a version.

>   At the moment I workaround with:
>      cd bin
>      gcc .....
>      cd ..
>
>Any suggestions ? 
>
>
>
>Tony
>
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