Re: Configure bug under Win9x-Cygwin systems.

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

address@hidden wrote:
[snip]
> I think I have found the problem.  It is in the check for command line
> parameter length.  I have changed .\configure from:
> 
>   case $host_os in
>   msdosdjgpp*)
>     # On DJGPP, this test can blow up pretty badly due to problems in libc
>     # (any single argument exceeding 2000 bytes causes a buffer overrun
>     # during glob expansion).  Even if it were fixed, the result of this
>     # check would be larger than it should be.
>     lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=12288;    # 12K is about right
>     ;;

This bug has been fixed in DJGPP's libc, but it's only in DJGPP CVS. I think
this limit is still reasonable for DJGPP, to stop libtool using up large
amounts of memory. (The definitive answer lies in the mail archives for
djgpp-workers at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ . I can't remember all of the
details right now.)

Perhaps Cygwin has some problems with its implementation of glob? Have you
tried asking on the Cygwin mailing lists whether anyone has had a similar
problem with libtool to the one mentioned above with DJGPP?

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]