gcc Arg List Too Long

gcc Arg List Too Long

[Anthony E. Glover]

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When trying to build my executable, I get an error from gcc
during the link phase that says my argument list is too long.
Is there anyway to get around this without building archives?
Does anyone have a step-by-step explanation of how to build
and use archives in the gnat process?

Thanks,
Tony
aeg@hiwaay.net
glover@thaad.tecmasters.com

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Re: gcc Arg List Too Long

[Pete Norton]

Anthony E. Glover wrote:

> When trying to build my executable, I get an error from gcc
> during the link phase that says my argument list is too long.
> Is there anyway to get around this without building archives?
> Does anyone have a step-by-step explanation of how to build
> and use archives in the gnat process?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
> aeg@hiwaay.net
> glover@thaad.tecmasters.com
>
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 Do you use gnatmake for your builds ?  We have some 2500 object files, and
growing, and build without any problem.

Pete.













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Pete Norton
Marconi Electronic Systems
Command and Information Systems Division

Re: gcc Arg List Too Long

[Simon Wright]

Pete Norton <pete.norton@gecm.com> writes:

> Anthony E. Glover wrote:
> 
> > When trying to build my executable, I get an error from gcc
> > during the link phase that says my argument list is too long.
> > Is there anyway to get around this without building archives?
> > Does anyone have a step-by-step explanation of how to build
> > and use archives in the gnat process?
> 
>  Do you use gnatmake for your builds ?  We have some 2500 object files, and
> growing, and build without any problem.

I think this depends on the OS? no trouble, I think, on Solaris or
Linux, but others (HP????) have problems ..

If I remember right, an upcoming release of GNAT will handle this
problem for you.

Re: gcc Arg List Too Long

[Anthony E. Glover]

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Thanks for the responses.  With the help of SGI, we have adjusted a 
system tunable parameter called NCARGS.  This parameter controls
the size (in bytes) of argument data.  Once this parameter was
bumped up, everything seems to work o.k.  If anyone has a similar
problem, the command 'systune' can be used to adjust the parameter
value.

Thanks,
Tony

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