Re: command line limit in mingw-make

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:04:38 +1000
> From: Jonathan Liu <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any update on this?

Not yet, sorry.  Life intervened.