Re: command line limit in mingw-make

On 3/09/2012 3:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:26:14 +1000
>> From: Jonathan Liu<[email protected]>
>> CC: Joe Burmeister<[email protected]>, [email protected]
>>
>>>> A quick test with CreateProcess seams to show it's not necessary for
>>>> this to trigger an intermediate batch file.
>>>
>>> Probably.  Can you try building make.exe with MinGW, after removing
>>> the " character from sh_chars_dos[] defined on job.c under WINDOWS32?
>>>
>>> (Building a MinGW Make requires to run the build_w32.bat batch file;
>>> see the file README.W32 for instructions.)
>>
>> I have removed the " character from sh_chars_dos and it works.
>> I can now build qt5 qtwebkit which has really long command lines (around
>> 12000 characters long). Also, quoted filenames that have spaces still
>> work fine in Makefiles.
>>
>> Could this be change applied to CVS?
>
> I'll add this to my TODO.  Thanks for testing.

Any update on this?

Regards,
Jonathan