From armstrong.whit at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 22:26:54 2008
From: armstrong.whit at gmail.com (Whit Armstrong)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:26:54 -0500
Subject: [Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for
	a R CMD check?
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I love xargs for all kinds of stuff, but I really don't want to write
my own configure script.

looks like simple solution is to recombine into one big source file
rather than splitting each function out.  pita...

-Whit


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Never used, but I seem to recall that this was good for that:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since, gcc was using upwards of 2gb of ram to compile my package, I
>> just split all the functions into individual files.
>>
>> I guess I'm too clever for myself, because now I get hit with the
>> "Argument list too long" error.
>>
>> Is there a way to deal with this aside from writing my own configure
>> script (which could possibly feed the gcc commands one by one).
>>
>> -Whit
>>
>> RHEL 5
>> [whit at linuxsvr]$ uname -a
>> Linux linuxsvr.kls.corp 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 09:00:19
>> EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> from 00install.out:
>>
>> * Installing *source* package 'RFincad' ...
>> ** libs
>> g++ -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include  -I/usr/local/include
>> -I./RAbstraction -I./R.tslib.backend -I./tslib -fpic  -g -O2 -c
>> aaAccrual_days_act252.cpp -o aaAccrual_days_act2\
>> 52.o
>> make: execvp: g++: Argument list too long
>> make: *** [aaAccrual_days_act252.o] Error 127
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RFincad'
>> ** Removing '/home/whit/dvl/fincad.utils/fincad.generate.R/RFincad.Rcheck/RFincad'
>>
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>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Ryan
> jeffrey.ryan at insightalgo.com
>
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[Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?
Whit Armstrong