Re: Issue 1821 in lilypond: GUB argument list too long

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> On Di., 16. Aug. 2011 07:46:32 CEST, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> address@hidden writes:
>> > I think it's literally that we have too many regression test files to
>> > fit into the current allowable file size.
>> 
>> Use
>> <URL:info:make#Text%20Functions>
>> for splitting the file lists into two groups, like those starting with
>> letters a-k and those that don't.
>
> I think the lys-to-tely call should stay one call. However, it would
> be quite simple to write the filenames to a file and pass that to
> lys-to-tely (like we do it in lilypond-book already for compiling the
> snippets).

If we can't pass the filenames to a call of lys-to-tely because of
command line length limits, I don't see us passing the filenames to
"echo" or similar shell commands more easily in order to write them to a
file.

-- 
David Kastrup