Re: desperate situation with $(shell ... :(

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
> CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:24:53 -0800
> 
> I can tell you that the words in very long list
> 
> $(foreach item, $(very_long_list), $(shell echo $(item)>>foobar.txt))
> 
> 
> are all Windows file names, some relative some absolute, listed with 
> backslashes, between 10 and 100 characters long, and between 1 and 10000 of 
> them.

cmd.exe is limited to 8K characters on its command line.  Could that
be the reason for the problem?