RE: working around "execvp: echo: Argument list too long"?

[Dave Korn]

Dave Korn wrote on 10 September 2008 15:15:

> Matthias Wenzel wrote on 10 September 2008 14:07:
> 
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>> 
>>>   :-) Sounds like you need something like this:
>> 
>>> File: make.info,  Node: Foreach and Xargs Functions,  Next: Call
>>> Function, Prev: Conditional Functions,  Up: Functions
>> 
>>> 8.6 The `xargs' Function
>>> ========================
>> 
>> So ... you ... travelled through time?
>> This is not part of the current GNU make 3.81
> 
> 
>   ;-)  Custom version; I'll pull the patch and post it here later tonight
> after I get home from work (UK $TZ) and have an hour or two to tidy it up.

  Didn't happen last night, sorry.  Was busy.  Here's the gist of it; might
need a bit of porting since it's against 3.80.  (Well, remake based on 3.80).

    cheers,
      DaveK
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