IcedTea6 compilation problems

[Mark Wielaard]

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.

That said, we should have a configure script to detect what jar utility
is installed and/or what the command line argument length is and do the
right thing of course.

Cheers,

Mark