Re: build shell command length

From: Markus Schoepflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-29 08:18:24

--- In boost_at_y..., Thomas Witt <witt_at_i...> wrote:
> 
> With jam from CVS the piecemeal option does not seem to work. The 
intel-win32 
> archive action can produce a link command thats rejected by the OS 
for 
> exceeding the maximum length. Any idea how to work around this?
> 

Acutally the piecemeal option does work, but the maximum command line 
length is defined as 10k for NT which is wrong.

You could try to lower it and see if you find a setting that works 
for you. It's in "jam.h", line 89.

I encountered the same problem last week but couldn't find a real fix 
for this as I couldn't find any hints for the correct maximum command 
line length for NT. Looks like it depends on other factors (maximum 
size of environment, how many environment variables are set, ...) as 
well.

> Thanks
> 
> Thomas
> 

HTH, Markus