[Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Release Candidate 1 Posted

[Gustavo Carneiro]

2008/6/17 Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr>:

>
> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 22:24 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
>
> > Not sure if win32/cygwin has the same problem, as I don't have cygwin
> > installed, but I suspect it does.
>
> cygwin on winxp seems to work fine. Don't ask me why.
>
> >
> > Googling the problem gave me this link:
> >
> http://lkamal.blogspot.com/2006/12/input-line-is-too-long-windows-command.html
> >
> > Which says "The number of characters that can be entered into a single
> > command is limited to 8191. (this is including spaces)."
>
> gcc 4.2 and up support the @file syntax (read from 'file' the
> command-line arguments). I believe that this patch was used with djgpp
> for a long time. Maybe the mingw people also supported it.


In the end I committed a different patch [1], but in any case it seems to be
working again.

[1] http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-dev/rev/5e57c2f1cfb7

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert