[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 28 May 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Pushed a check to 'balay/gnumake-cygwin'
> >
> >>>>>
> > commit 9044defc4215d73a805105aae748d53a5be06605
> > Author: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Date:   Tue May 28 14:19:40 2013 -0500
> >
> >     gmake: check cygwin version - and its 1.7.18 or older, use V=1
> 
> I cherry-picked this onto 'jed/gnumake' because I didn't want the
> unrelated patch before it.  Its commit is now:
> 
>   b10d012affee97fea384b801cb0aeb042614a900
> 
> and I have deleted 'balay/gnumake-cygwin'.  Thanks.

Ah - I haven't noticed this before [primarily because most of my
testing was with --with-fc=0 - so the link command was reduced by
half]

But now I get this error with fortran enabled.

>>>>>>>>
balay at msnehalem2 ~/petsc.clone
$ make -f gmakefile PETSC_ARCH=arch-cmplx V=1 > x
/usr/bin/sh: /home/balay/petsc.clone/bin/win32fe/win32fe: Argument list too long
make: *** [/home/balay/petsc.clone/arch-cmplx/lib/libpetsc.lib] Error 126

balay at msnehalem2 ~/petsc.clone
$ grep win32fe x | wc
      1     964   53867
<<<<<<<<<

Looks like windows programs have '32k' limit on the 'command-line
argument buffer' [and win32fe, lib etc are windows binaries]

google gives one reference to this problem.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00285.html

Perhaps we should split up AR command into multiple invocations? [for windows?]

Satish