Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument
Jørgen Havsberg Seland
jorgen@fabeljet.com
Fri May 6 21:50:00 GMT 2005
[This posting is to provide future searchers with a direct hit.]
This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the
windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the
executable using the -X switch. For instance, use
mount -f -X c:/cygwin/bin /bin
to enable "cygexec" for all executables in that folder. This will cause
cygwin to "talk directly" to another cygwin executable, and the limit
disappears (or at least moves).
(You can also disable it for individual files with the -x option. See
the mount man page for more information.)
(This took me way too long to find, as I had no idea what to look for.
Thanks to Christopher Faylor for mentioning the solution in a posting
with *almost* the right topic.)
Additional keywords:
gcc-4.0.0 *make*: *execvp*: /bin/sh: Argument list too long error 255
OBTW: Is there an official or semi-official cygwin Wiki where one may
post these things?
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jørgen h. seland
jorgen-at-fabeljet-dot-com
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