[m-rev.] for review: use xargs in mmake

[Fergus Henderson]

On 14-Feb-2002, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> scripts/mmake.in:
>     Use xargs to avoid overflowing the command line size limit.
> 
> Index: scripts/mmake.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/scripts/mmake.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.36
> diff -u -r1.36 mmake.in
> --- scripts/mmake.in	27 Jul 2001 17:06:17 -0000	1.36
> +++ scripts/mmake.in	14 Feb 2002 16:26:00 -0000
> @@ -295,7 +295,8 @@
>  export MMAKE_USE_SUBDIRS
>  export MERCURY_INT_DIR
>  export MERCURY_DEFAULT_GRADE
> -cat ${MMAKE_VARS} $dvs $ds $include_makefile $mmake $deps ${MMAKE_RULES} > $tmp
> +echo ${MMAKE_VARS} $dvs $ds $include_makefile \
> +		$mmake $deps ${MMAKE_RULES} | xargs cat > $tmp

I don't see how that will solve the problem -- won't you just overflow
the command line size limit for `echo' rather than for `cat'?

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