# from Ken Williams
# on Sunday 28 May 2006 03:35 pm:
>In this thread the submitter describes a situation where he's seeing =A0
>the old "Argument list too long" error on Fedora Core when the test =A0
>suites try to run Build.PL scripts.
And here I was thinking this was a shell thing. I guess I should have=20
known better from the fact that the value is set as a kernel constant.
perl -e 'system(qw(perl -e), q(print @ARGV), 0..0xFFFF) and warn "$!";'
>Any idea what we should do here, and/or how this popped up again? =A0
>Assuming this is a problem with a long @INC, I was thinking we should
> =A0 perhaps optionally (default true?) not include any non-existent,
> absolute @INC entries in run_perl_script() or wherever it is that's
> currently failing.
If reducing @INC to the set of unique and existent entries doesn't do=20
the trick, maybe you could create a temp (or _build) file with a bunch=20
of 'use lib' statements and -Mthat instead?
If the longness comes from parameters, you could try xargs, but that=20
seems bound to cause trouble.
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