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From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
To: Richard Purdie via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] gcc: Fix "argument list too long" from install-plugins
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:54:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211027225404.4ed7a90b@nbbrfq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211027200505.3340725-3-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:05:02 +0100
Richard Purdie via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> When building in longer build paths (200+ characters), the
> "echo $(PLUGIN_HEADERS)" from the install-plugins target would cause an
> "argument list too long error" on some systems.
> 
> Avoid this by calling make's sort function on the list which removes
> duplicates and stops the overflow from reaching the echo command.
> The original sort is left to handle the the .h and .def files.

you could as well $(subst $(srcdir),,$(wildcard $(addprefix
$(srcdir),*.h *.def))) and subst '' with '\012' wrapped in an outer
sort to completely do away with the echo and shell sort i suppose.
Just an idea.
thanks,
> 
> 2021-10-26 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> gcc/ChangeLog:
> 
>     * Makefile.in: Fix "argument list too long" from install-plugins
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  gcc/Makefile.in | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gcc/Makefile.in b/gcc/Makefile.in
> index 658093c11c0..89482c6dd4e 100644
> --- a/gcc/Makefile.in
> +++ b/gcc/Makefile.in
> @@ -3685,7 +3685,7 @@ install-plugin: installdirs lang.install-plugin s-header-vars install-gengtype
>  # We keep the directory structure for files in config, common/config or
>  # c-family and .def files. All other files are flattened to a single directory.
>  	$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(plugin_includedir)
> -	headers=`echo $(PLUGIN_HEADERS) $$(cd $(srcdir); echo *.h *.def) | tr ' ' '\012' | sort -u`; \
> +	headers=`echo $(sort $(PLUGIN_HEADERS)) $$(cd $(srcdir); echo *.h *.def) | tr ' ' '\012' | sort -u`; \
>  	srcdirstrip=`echo "$(srcdir)" | sed 's/[].[^$$\\*|]/\\\\&/g'`; \
>  	for file in $$headers; do \
>  	  if [ -f $$file ] ; then \


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-27 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-27 20:05 [PATCH 0/5] OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project gcc patches Richard Purdie
2021-10-27 20:05 ` [PATCH 1/5] Makefile.in: Ensure build CPP/CPPFLAGS is used for build targets Richard Purdie
2021-10-28  7:04   ` Richard Biener
2021-10-28 14:43     ` Jeff Law
2021-10-27 20:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] gcc: Fix "argument list too long" from install-plugins Richard Purdie
2021-10-27 20:54   ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer [this message]
2021-12-03  3:01   ` Jeff Law
2021-10-27 20:05 ` [PATCH 3/5] gcc: Add --nostdlib++ option Richard Purdie
2021-10-27 20:56   ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2021-10-28 16:41     ` Richard Purdie
2021-12-03  3:05       ` Jeff Law
2021-10-28 14:51   ` Jeff Law
2021-10-28 16:39     ` Richard Purdie
2021-12-03  3:04       ` Jeff Law
2021-12-05 11:43         ` Richard Purdie
2021-12-06  6:10           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-10-27 20:05 ` [PATCH 4/5] gcc/nios2: Define the musl linker Richard Purdie
2021-10-28 14:46   ` Jeff Law
2021-10-27 20:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] gcc: Pass sysroot options to cpp for preprocessed source Richard Purdie
2021-12-14 23:47   ` Jeff Law

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