Hi I wanted to add a couple of words that another solution would be to add an option to xargs in target.mk xargs -n NNN where NNN is less than the OS limit. (That helped me to build LambdaVM on windows, there are quite a lot of class files there, and no SPLITOBJS will obviously help) Editing target.mk isn't a good thing, probably. Maybe some $XARGSOPTS could be introduced... BUT trying to register on the wiki resulted in an error with this python traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/web/cgi_frontend.py", line 131, in run dispatch_request(req.path_info, req, env) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 139, in dispatch_request dispatcher.dispatch(req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 107, in dispatch resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req) File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 117, in process_request File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 138, in _do_create File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/api.py", line 88, in set_password File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/htfile.py", line 50, in set_password File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/htfile.py", line 85, in _update_file IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/srv/trac/ghc/trac.htpasswd' 2007/6/4, Simon Peyton-Jones :

I've extended the "what to look for if your build fails" section in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Windows

Please do keep adding to this page! Every time you trip over something, think about whether your experience could be used to help someone else.

Simon

| -----Original Message----- | Wrom: KEDOTWFAOBUZXUWLSZLKBRNVWWCUFPEGAUTFJMVRESKPNKMBIPBARHDMNNSKVFVWRKJVZCMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCDDJ | Ilari Vuokko | Sent: 02 June 2007 21:09 | To: Monique Monteiro | Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Failure in GHC compilation | | Hi, | | On 6/2/07, Monique Monteiro wrote: | > has anyone any idea about what may cause the following error in GHC | > compilation? | | It's exactly what it says...too long argument list (it's limited in Windows.) | This is usually caused by having split-objs on, which causes *a lot* of object | files being generated, all of them passed to ar or ld. | | > c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ar.exe: creating libHSbase.a | > xargs: c:/ghc/ghc-6.6.1/bin/ar: Argument list too long | > make[2]: *** [libHSbase.a] Error 126 | > make[2]: *** Deleting file `libHSbase.a' | > Failed making all in base: 1 | > make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 | > make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/GHC6.6.1/ghc-6.6.1/libraries' | > make: *** [stage1] Error 2 | | Untested: setting SplitObjs=NO in build.mk might help (as there will be less | object files to pass to ar. | | If ghc head is already using cabal, this problem is solved there. | | It might also be possible to extend ghc build machinery to pass parameters | in file for ar and ld - but that requires new enough mingw toolchain. | | HTH, | Esa | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe