Hi Neil, I'm extending GHC, so I really need to compile it. Monique On 6/2/07, Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi Monique,

Unless you REALLY need to, I'd recommend using the precompiled binaries on Windows:

http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_661.html

Thanks

Neil

On 6/2/07, Monique Monteiro wrote:

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Hi,

has anyone any idea about what may cause the following error in GHC compilation?

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

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On 6/2/07, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:

Untested: setting SplitObjs=NO in build.mk might help (as there will be less object files to pass to ar.

Ok, it worked for me. Thanks for the tip! Monique

Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote: Hi, [..]

It's exactly what it says...too long argument list (it's limited in Windows.) [..]

I am just curious - is there a OS, where the argument list is not limited (like in limits.h under Unix/Posix)? Best regards Georg Sauthoff

On Jun 5, 2007, at 18:26 , Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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I am just curious - is there a OS, where the argument list is not limited (like in limits.h under Unix/Posix)?

No, that would require an infinite amount of address space. Even if you have exabytes of swap, argv[] has to be all concurrently addressable.

Less pedantically, Linux 2.6 kernels do not arbitrarily restrict argument lists. (I suspect this comes at a cost, however.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH