Re: [boost] Re: build shell command length

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-29 11:37:16

On Monday 29 October 2001 17:02, you wrote:
> From: "Markus Schoepflin" <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]>
>
> > --- 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.
>
> There doesn't appear to be a documented max command line length for NT - it
> probably depends on how the process is created (CreateProcess, *spawn*,
> *exec*, etc).
>
> link.exe, however, apparently has a maximum of 4K, and that includes
> content inside "response" files.  It's not 4K total, just 4K per line -
> make sure there's a line break at least once every 4k and there should be
> no problems.  This restriction is probably why Visual Studio always uses a
> response file when invoking link.exe.
>
> -cd

Thanks for the info.

Anybody having an idea how to get this done with jam ?

Thomas

BTW: Bill drives me nuts.

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