[petsc-dev] Experimental GNU make build system

[Jed Brown]

Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> I can use cygpath directly from gmakefile to handle this.
>
>         @cygpath -w $^ > ar.args

I don't understand how this works.  Doesn't it overflow the argument
list just as surely as the other methods?  Wouldn't we need to write the
arguments file incrementally if we're going to pass the file names on
the command line?