Re: command line limit in mingw-make

[Jonathan Liu]

On 3/09/2012 3:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:26:14 +1000
> > From: Jonathan Liu<address@hidden>
> > CC: Joe Burmeister<address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >
> > > > A quick test with CreateProcess seams to show it's not necessary for
> > > > this to trigger an intermediate batch file.
> > > Probably.  Can you try building make.exe with MinGW, after removing
> > > the " character from sh_chars_dos[] defined on job.c under WINDOWS32?
> > >
> > > (Building a MinGW Make requires to run the build_w32.bat batch file;
> > > see the file README.W32 for instructions.)
> > I have removed the " character from sh_chars_dos and it works.
> > I can now build qt5 qtwebkit which has really long command lines (around
> > 12000 characters long). Also, quoted filenames that have spaces still
> > work fine in Makefiles.
> >
> > Could this be change applied to CVS?
> I'll add this to my TODO.  Thanks for testing.
Patch attached for reference.

win32-shell-remove-double-quote.patch
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