libbsd: Argument list too long

[Sebastian Huber]

I created a waf ticket for this:

https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1756

On 10/06/16 18:20, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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>
> On Jun 10, 2016 9:16 AM, "Sebastian Huber" 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I added the NFSv3 client to libbsd which has now 884 files for the 
> libbsd.a library. On msys2 this leads to an "Argument list too long" 
> error during library creation. Is there a way to fix this in waf, e.g. 
> you can pass the files to GNU ld via an input file instead of the 
> argument list?
>
> Yes. I recall two direct ways.
>
> + @XXX where XXX is a file containing the rest.of the command line 
> arguments. I don't know how universally this is supported by the GNU 
> tools by i am pretty sure gcc and binutils support it.
>
> + Generate a linker script with INPUT directives for.each file.
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gnu.gcc.help/E6STugqy2hQ 
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#%21topic/gnu.gcc.help/E6STugqy2hQ> 
> shows the latter. But there are examples out there using the @.
>

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