Fwd: Pooma 2.4.0 Problem on Tru64 Unix

[Kai Bröking]

Hello everybody,

I was asked to forward my problem to this list. I would be glad, if  
somebody could help. I have broken it down to the following points (to  
my opinion, anyway). The original problem is attached below. It has to  
do with ar stating that that the argument list is too long while  
executing make:

1) it seems to be a problem of the shell (in this case bash), which  
complains about the argument list generated by make being too long to  
work with.
The argument list is generated automatically as constructed in
$(pooma_source)/config/Shared/tail.mk ,
specifically while generating the AR_CMDLINE -variable as
$(AR_CMDLINE)=$(AR) $(RULE_AR_OPTS) $@ $(filter %.o,$+)  
$(INSTANTIATION_DIR)/*.o
I have not gotten round to break that down to its parts, as  
RULE_AR_OPTS and INSTANTIATION_DIR are rather nastily composed of more  
variables that seem to be distributed all over the place.

2) Fixing the problem seems to incorporate:
      a) finding out which files exactly make up the library that is to  
be composed by ar
      and
      b) getting ar to parse one by one the files it shall ad to the  
archive and adding them to the library that is to be composed,
      plus
      c) finding out if what else is to be done for getting a working  
library.

I will have a look at all three, but for now: here's the original  
problem, and I would appreciate any hints for other ways to find a  
workaround.  Maybe any of you have stumbled across this mess, too.
Thank you for your time and effort going through my mail.

Best Regards,
Kai.
   
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  Kai Broeking                                                       
e-mail: kai at chaos.gwdg.de
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung   Tel: (49) 551 5176 444
  Goettingen                                                              
    FAX: (49) 551 5176 439
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Now here's what caused all the trouble:

Begin forwarded message:
> I have tried to compile pooma 2.4.0 on (several) alphas running Tru 64  
> Unix (arch  DECCXX)
> The options I gave configure were:
> --prefix  ~myhome/lib/<machinename>/ --arch DECCXX
> configure ran fine and completed within a second or so.
> I made a  setenv POOMASUITE DECCXX.
>
> During the execution of make I encountered the following problem:
> For some reason there is  a time in front of the
> ar rc foo1.cmpl.o foo2.cmpl.o foo3.cmpl.o ...
>
> make always teminates with error 1, and the precise error message I  
> find in
> lib/DECCXX/libpooma.a_1.info is:
>
> /bin/sh: /usr/bin/time: arg list too long
>
>  even if I unset the TIME variable in config/Shared/variables.mk, the  
> problem continues, and ar returns the above error message. I have also  
> tried moving the pooma-2.4.0-drectory up a bit, but this does not  
> solve the problem, either.
> My question therefore would be  whether there is a workaround for this  
> problem.
> Thank you in anticipation of your help,
>
> Best Regards,
> Kai Broeking.
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>  Kai Broeking                                                       
> e-mail: kai at chaos.gwdg.de
>  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung   Tel: (49) 551 5176 444
>  Goettingen                                                             
>     FAX: (49) 551 5176 439
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