Hi,
make.exe on Windows has one strange feature (for Win9x
compatibility?).
If command line in make file contains double quotes (") make.exe
creates temp batch file and executes this command via batch file. In
other cases a command is executed directly via CreateProcess.
IMO "the input line is too long" bug is caused by batch file
limitations.
In most cases it can be fixed by replacing double quotes (") by single
quotes (').
Yury Sidorov.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Finck" <mail(a)colinfinck.de>
To: "'ReactOS Development List'" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:38 AM
Subject: [ros-dev] "the input line is too long" bug caused by
hpoussin'schanges
Hello everyone,
As most devs including me noticed this "the input line is too long"
bug
after hpoussin's changes in r34187 to r34191, I did some research on
it.
Unfortunately, it looks like it's unfixable if we keep on directly
using ld
for linking (as introduced in these revisions) instead of calling
the gcc
frontend.
First of all, the "length" of the cmd input line under Windows seems
to be
highly affected by quotation marks. If you add a quotation mark to
the
working linker command line before hpoussin's commits, it will also
be
reported as being too long.
Previously, we didn't use quotation marks in the command line when
linking
the binaries.
Now we have to do this because of the changed PROJECT_LFLAGS and
PROJECT_LPPFLAGS variables: They contain the path to i.e. libgcc and
as this
path can contain spaces, it has to be put in quotation marks. Just
passing
"libgcc.a" without a path doesn't work.
Passing "-lgcc" also doesn't work, because mingw32-ld only seems to
search
for libraries in "mingw32/lib", not "lib/gcc/mingw32/4.1.3" as gcc
does.
I see no other solution than partly reverting hpoussin's changes and
using
gcc for linking again.
If anyone sees another option, please comment or directly commit a
fix.
Best regards,
Colin
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