GNUmakefile: fix install error "argument list too long" #7321
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When packaging uutils for Conda-Forge, the install of completion scripts fails with the following error. make: /bin/sh: Argument list too long The completion scripts are installed with a `foreach` loop that expands into a single long command. That command hits the maximum argument length on the build platform used by Conda-Forge. To fix, we change the Make command to split each install into a seperate command. This is done by embedding a newline in the command. See the following for an example of how this works. https://www.extrema.is/blog/2021/12/17/makefile-foreach-commands
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Feb 18, 2025
Co-authored-by: Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
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When packaging uutils for Conda-Forge, the install of completion scripts fails with the following error.
The completion scripts are installed with a
foreachloop that expands into a single long command. That command hits the maximum argument length on the build platform used by Conda-Forge.To fix, we change the Make command to split each install into a seperate command. This is done by embedding a newline in the command. See the following for an example of how this works.
https://www.extrema.is/blog/2021/12/17/makefile-foreach-commands