IcedTea6 compilation problems

[Matthias Klose]

Mark Wielaard schrieb:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:12 +0200, Guido Kämper wrote:
>> I tried to compile icedtea6 and ran into the following problem. Can
>> someone give me a hint, how I can avoid the "Argument list too long"
>> error? The best would be without recompiling the kernel :-) I am trying to
>> compile it on an Ubuntu OS, installation of gcc 4.3.0 before was very
>> smooth.
> 
> Use a real shell like bash. Ubuntu seems to install some shell by
> default (dash?) that has some limitations like the above.

it's a POSIX shell. On the other hand Ubuntu's gjar has the @ option available.
Maybe we could just conditionalize applying this patch?

  Matthias