Furthermore the generated file libraries/base/GNUMakefile contained "`xargs -s 30000`" which is too big for Solaris (the maximal value is

#98: cabal assumes -x option for linking ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: Christian.Maeder@dfki.de | Owner: ijones Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.6 | Platform: Other Unix ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): Replying to [comment:2 guest]: 2048) I'd really like to get this increased. 2048 is ridiculously low for most platforms. We end up doing multiple ar and ld calls even for ordinary sized Haskell projects without even using split-objs. If people use split- objs we'll end up making 100's of ar/ld calls for larger libs. According to POSIX.1-2001 the minimum value for ARG_MAX is _POSIX_ARG_MAX which is 4096. So surely even older versions of Solaris must have supported at least 4096? I used the following C program to test on Solaris 9 and I discovered the value is 1048320. {{{ #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <limits.h> int main () { printf("ARG_MAX == %d, sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) == %ld\n", ARG_MAX, sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX)); return 0; } }}} On posix systems we could test dynamically using `System.Posix.Unistd.getSysVar ArgumentLimit` though it's a pain because we'd have to use cpp and add a conditional dependency on the unix package. Christian, what version of Solaris are you using and what does the above C program report for you? -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/98#comment:15> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects