From jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 22:23:12 2008
From: jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com (Jeff Ryan)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:23:12 -0600
Subject: [Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for
	a R CMD check?
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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
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[Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?
Jeff Ryan