hi everybody !
first, congratulations! great tool with mighty functions!
i, and what i found out, many other people have problems with
command-lines longer than 8192 characters (limit of shell at windows,
versions >= windows xp).
a great solution would be, if the make-tool could export a variable to a
file, similar as the make tool already supports an export of a variable
to an environment variable.
e.g. "export EnvVar = $(VARIABLE)"
most tools and compiler-packages support the input of parameters from a
file without length limitations.
so most limitation problems could be fixed with a variable-to-file
command, available inside make.
e.g. "exportf par.cmd = $(VARIABLE)"
my old make did support this by a construction like this :
inside receipt
tool <<par.cmd
$(VARIABLE)
<<
for gnu make, i made a workaround by "echo" every single word of the
variable to the file,
but this is very very slow and a roundabout way !
please give me a reply, if you think about to add a feature like i
described to the next version of gnu make or
if you already included an other methode to fix the problem.
greetings
christian pichler