Re: Help with GNUMAKE on PC platform - command line lenght limitations

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:05:29 -0500
> From: "Ron.E.Gaskins" <address@hidden>
> 
> I am switching from OPUSMAKE to GNUMAKE on a PC platform.  I would like 
> assistance/advice on the following:
> 
> FILES=        file1 file2 file3 file4 .... File99
> Clean:        erase $(FILES)
> 
> 
> This causes problems on a PC because of the length of the erase command 
> exceeds the limits.

What limit is that, and which port of GNU Make do you use?

In general, unless you mix incompatible toolchains, the limitation on
command-line length should be very far away, like 16KB or so.  This
should be more than enough for very long command lines.