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Re: @file response file support for make
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Paul Smith |
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Re: @file response file support for make |
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:03:49 -0400 |
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:49 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> There is a de facto standard solution to this problem, which is that a
> command line argument of the form "@file" causes arguments to be read from
> "file" (a "response file") if it exists. (If "file" doesn't exist,
> "@file" is taken literally as an ordinary command-line argument.) This
> feature is supported by GCC and GNU binutils, for example; I think it
> originated on Windows, but it is useful everywhere with any command line
> limit.
This seems like a very useful additional feature.
Can you please add this patch to the Savannah project for GNU make, so
we don't lose track of it?
https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=additem&group=make
Thanks for your work on this!
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