[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38075] 'make' fails with "Argument list too long" message

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #38075 (project octave):

I've attached a changeset which I think is cleaner.  It moves the very long
list of substitution values off the shell command line and into a file which
can therefore grow arbitrarily long.  It only makes one callout to the shell
(and to Perl) rather than a series of callouts which would each require a new
shell invocation and could be slow.  I'm adding jwe to the CC list so he can
comment.

I agree 100% with you that something should be done to make the build system
robust and portable to systems with different shell limitations. 

(file #27296)
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File name: fix_long_sh_lines.patch        Size:18 KB


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