Long Command Lines and @FILE

[Mike Frysinger]

On 16 Sep 2021 10:03, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> I am probably remembering something wrong since I can't find any
> documentation that says this should work. A Cygwin RTEMS user is
> blowing up the command line limit building a library with ar and way
> too many files with long paths. I have a vague recollection that you
> could do something like:
> 
> ar crv mylibrary.a @LIST
> 
> And LIST be a file that contains a list of objects to add. Is this in
> binutils or some other ancient toolchain I encountered and thought
> this was a nifty feature?
> 
> I think they could do it with an MRI style script or maybe a linker
> script with the list of objects.
> 
> Any suggestions on best practices for dealing with situations like
> this? My thoughts always focus on fixing their build system rather
> than a direct workaround to the too long command. :)

https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.37/binutils/Common-Options.html
-mike
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