Re: Resend: Work-around for Small Kernel Environment Size

[Tom Browder]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>> The MAKE_LONG_LIST function generates a file with all of the contents
>> of the long MAKE variable, one element per line.
>
> So, I think the behavior you're seeing is correct (unless I just don't
> understand the problem you're describing).
>
> If you read the original email you'll see he then uses xargs to group
> the generated file into multiple files at a time.
>
> The "500" in the original message, as I understand it, is NOT the number
> of elements printed to the same line of the output file.  Rather, it's
> the number of elements that can appear in a single instance of the
> printf function, internally.

That's what I don't understand.  Why does that matter since only one
element is used per line?

My problem started when I had a list of over 4000 (4067, to be exact)
object files to be deleted, and "-rm $(OBJ)" failed.

The I used the solution which worked great.  However, the generated
file is also 4067 lines long so I can't see that the iteration is
doing anything.  If it isn't, then there might be a little
simplification possible (if I could get my brain around the macros and
functions).

Thanks for responding, Paul.

-Tom