[Mesa-dev] [Bug 94072] error: The command line is too long when building MESA on Windows with MinGW-W64

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94072

--- Comment #5 from Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> ---
(In reply to sav_ix from comment #0)
> While looking for solution, found in SCons wiki:
> "MingW had some problems during the link phase of the build process. It
> turned out our link lines were in excess of 10000 characters, and this was
> causing some major grief with python calling spawn()..."
> (details at https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/LongCmdLinesOnWin32 ).

We probably need something like this.

It's not the first time SCons usage of CRT exec causes problems.

We also had random build failures with SCons on Windows with parallel builds
because the CRT is not thread safe.

It would be great if SCons migrated to subprocess.

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