On 2008-04-23 at 15:02:14 [+0200], Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Weinhold wrote: > > Yep, that's a dup of #1991 and the reason is well understood: Jam thinks > > our > > command line limit is 40KB, but it is only 16KB ATM. Hence it can produce > > command lines that get truncated and thus fail. Our bash might have an > > even > > stricter limit. [...] > So it looks like we accept around 16 Kb for the command like *BUT* we > are not really returning an error when this limit is exceeded and it > seems we should. Yep, we're just truncating ATM. Sorry, if that wasn't clear from my first reply. CU, Ingo