From: fluffy@jyra.com (Martyn J. Pearce) Subject: Command line length limit 25 Nov 1997 21:10:12 -0800 Message-ID: <345749E100001937.cygnus.gnu-win32@jyracomms.jyra.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Johnson Cc: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Mark Johnson writes: | I happen to have a makefile where a target has several hundred | dependencies (it is a zipfile). | | Unfortunately the win32 make reports an execvp error when attempting | to exec the shell, either bash or cmd.exe, with the dependency list or | export the dependency list as an environment variable. | | Any other possible workaround would also be appreciated. I have tried | echoing to a tempfile or the environment, then invoking zip to read | from the appropriate source but with no success. I think that xargs may be what you're after --- it's part of the standard gnuwin32 package. It takes a bundle of arguments, a command, and repeats the command on sized chunks of those arguments, e.g., twenty at a time. Mx. -------------------------------- Jyra Research Hemel Hempstead England - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".