IcedTea6 compilation problems

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/6/25 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> 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
>
>

I think there's a standard configure test for the latter.  For the
former, we need
to see if jar balks on @...
-- 
Andrew :-)

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