Building RTEMS 4.12 for ARM using source builder fails

[Chris Johns]

On 31/10/2017 07:45, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 31/10/2017 04:50, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 2017 1:33 PM, "Brendan McNally" <brendan at xia.com
>> <mailto:brendan at xia.com>> wrote:
>>     Hi Chris - 
>>
>>     Thank you! The path length was indeed the issue, and building from
>>     'E:\dev\rtems' worked as advertisied.
>>
>>     And thank you for directing me to the user manual documentation. I had
>>     inadvertently started my journey using a different documentation set; the
>>     RTEMS Source builder docs
>>     (https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/rsb/index.html
>>     <https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/rsb/index.html>).
>>
>>
>> Glad you got it built.
>>
> 
> I am as well. It is an A+ to the MSYS2 project that we can do this.
> 
>> Chris... Does it make sense to check for a starting path on Windows that is too
>> long? This is such an easy situation to trip across and it seems to fail in
>> mysterious ways.
>>
> 
> Yes this is a good idea. I am not sure how I can figure out the length we can
> build too.
> 

For the record this is close to the deepest path that worked:

/d/123456789/123456789/123456789/123456789/12

which is 45 characters including the separator and drive.

Chris