cygwin problem in building in deep directories

[Noel Grandin]

On 2012-05-14 15:33, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> It shouldn't be make, when I built a small testapp that just printed 
> out its argv[], everything looked ok to me. To me it looks like the 
> limit is there either when converting args between cygwin and pure-MS 
> apps (or whatever it is that happens at that point), or in MSVC. 
> Still, not much we can do about it, I think. 

OK, so that's good to know. In that case the bug is more than likely in 
MSVC and the only thing we could do is to pass in the parameters using a 
command-response file.
In the meantime I'll find a rough limit on how deep it can handle and we 
can build that into configure.

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