[Developers] cannot generate libthorn_CactusBindings.a on IBM SP5 because argument list is too long

[Erik Schnetter]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 04:56:08, Thomas Radke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the Cactus integration tests (for which the results can be found in  
> the
> portal https://portal.cactuscode.org) are also run every night on  
> an IBM
> SP5 at LSU. There I have the problem that, for a configuration with  
> very
> many thorns, the Cactus bindings library cannot be generated:
>
>> gmake[2]: execvp: ar: The parameter or environment lists are too  
>> long.
>> gmake[2]: *** [/scratch/tradke/Cactus/configs/Einstein/lib/ 
>> libthorn_CactusBindings.a] Error 127
>
> Didn't we once had a similar problems with command lines being too  
> long
> ? Was there a solution to that problem ?


I have a work-around using xargs and some additional make goals.  The  
additional goals build a text file containing all object files, and  
then ar is called via xargs to create the thorn library piecewise.   
See the goal $(NAME), and the additional goals near the end of this  
file.

-erik

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