Re: CT 0.29 - stuck compiling gcc 4.0 glibc 2.2.5 ppc405: execvp:/bin/sh: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> msdn says in
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp
>
> lpCommandLine
>     [in, out] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the 
> command line to execute.
>         The maximum length of this string is 32K characters.
>
> So it appears to be a Windows limitation, not a Cygwin one.
>
> You have a couple options, in increasing order of difficulty:
>
> 1) switch to linux or some other real OS, like mac os x (putty is your 
> friend, you can keep
> your windows workstation, just remote log in to the other box)
> 2) cross-compile the cygwin toolchain from linux
> 3) patch gcc's build to use shorter commandlines
> 4) patch cygwin to bypass the windows commandline mechanism

I forgot the easiest option: use a shorter path, maybe?
That long commandline is full of options like this:
-B/cygdrive/c/DATA/crosstool-0.29/build/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/gcc-4.0-20050305-glibc-2.2.5/build-gcc/gcc

So maybe if you unpack crosstool in /x instead of /cygdrive/c/DATA/crosstool-0.29,
the commandline would be short enough to get you by.
It's worth a shot, anyway.
- Dan

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