Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 2/3] [ng] coverage: distributing lots of files

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 07/14/2012 05:06 PM, Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Le 13 juil. 2012 à 12:19, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
> 
>> * t/dist-many.sh: New test, try distributing ~ 30 thousands files.
>> Currently fails on several systems (e.g., Linux 2.6.30 on i686,
>> Solaris 10 on i86pc).
>> * t/dist-many2.sh: New test, check that our distribution rules do not
>> hit errors due to an exceeded command line length when there are
>> many files to distribute; it does so by faking  a very low command
>> line length limit for 'mkdir' (max 50 arguments) and the shell (max
>> 4000 characters).  Currently failing.
> 
> Do these figures come from known limitations?
> 
Nope, basically arbitrary.  We might tune such tests (dist-many2.sh,
dist-clean2.sh ...) later if we want too, after some investigation
to determine which is the known lowest command-line length limitation
out there (on the systems worth supporting, of course).

Regards,
  Stefano