On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 19:26 +0200, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:

At Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:41 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:

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Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:

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Wed Oct 8 08:44:10 PDT 2008 Clemens Fruhwirth * Also respect the max. command line size in Makefile driven builds

M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -7 +13 M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.hs -1 +1 M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.in -1 +1

View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20081008154410-ed0c4-33d531c4e...

I think passing -s to xargs in Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.in is a bad idea (as long as max-cmd-line-size is not determined) and was removed some time ago!

What was the rational? It seems to break any reasonably large package built with split-objs under Windows.

And why isn't the correct solution to this to determine the max command line size?

I thought that xargs knew how big the command line args should be, even on windows. You're saying that without specifying -s, xargs on windows still fails with too long command line args? Duncan