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Subject:    Re: mingw on cmd.com: The input line is too long (was: Failed to
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-11-02 16:07:32
Message-ID: 200911021707.32128.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Monday 02 November 2009, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 18:01:42 schrieb Christian Ehrlicher:
> > Ludwig Reiter schrieb:
> > > I tried "emerge qt" to build qt on a MS Windows Server 2003 R2.
> > > While building WebCore, it failed, because an "input line is too long"
> > > error.   This g++-input line is about 8243 letters long, containing
> > > many "-I" Options with long absolute pathes.
>
> This seems to hit the line length limit of cmd.com  of Window XP.
> (And for NT4 someone could use the newer cmd.com to get the (Kibi Byte
> limit) See
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin/bro
>wse_thread/thread/6718b6787f3a9e7/f7925bedc7ea70e9
>
> > I had this problem a long time ago with cmake + mingw.
>
> This discussion hint upon that cmake fixed that problem at some time for
> large commands line during linking:
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2006-September/011284.html
>
> The problem we have is with a modern cmake and include paths.
> They grow a lot depending on the path where the source code resides.

I'd suggest to ask on the cmake mailing list, maybe it can be fixed in the 
same way.

Alex
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