From: Christopher F. <me...@cg...> - 2004-09-13 19:58:13
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:19:21AM -0500, Mohan Embar wrote: >Hi Andrew, > >> > Rutger Ovidius pointed out off list that he has problems >> > building libgcj under Cygwin because of command-line >> > length limitations that used to be worked around when >> > building libgcj.la. I haven't looked into this much but >> > was wondering if this rang a bell with anyone.... >> >>Do we know why this is? Doesn't Cygwin use bash? > >Cygwin uses bash too, but probably has more severe command-line- >length limitations which expose this issue than say bash on RH 9.0. >I don't build on Windows, but recall that I was surprised to see >the massive link command line on Linux and sort of wondered out >loud why things didn't break. Cygwin has a '-X' mount option which allows longer command line lengths than windows provides. I don't know if it would also work on msys. cgf |