From armstrong.whit at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 14:17:50 2008
From: armstrong.whit at gmail.com (Whit Armstrong)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:17:50 -0500
Subject: [Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for
	a R CMD check?
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This package built successfully on ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!

Since the new method (splitting the files) will fail for anyone not
using a very recent linux kernel, I think I should revert to the old
consolidated files.

I suspect there is little interest from R-core in changing the build
script to link the files incrementally (is that possible).  To my
knowledge no other packages out there have such an insane amount of
files.

-Whit


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Prof. Ripley.
>
>> What I suspect is happening is that there is a link command starting with
>> 'g++' that is too long.
>> One useful ref: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax
>
> interesting...
>
> on my system:
>
> [whit at linuxsvr src]$ getconf ARG_MAX
> 131072
> [whit at linuxsvr src]$
>
> Let me try on another machine w/ a more recent kernel before I take up
> more of everyone's time.
>
> -Whit
>



[Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?
Whit Armstrong