Re: cannot execute 'ld': Argument list too long

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 01:46:20PM +0000, pin wrote:
> On Thursday, August 22nd, 2024 at 11:22 AM, pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm seeing quite a few of these on bulk builds and now I got one myself.
> > 
> > [...]
> > Compiling ctrlc v3.4.4
> > error: linking with `cc` failed: exit status: 1
> > |
> > = note: LC_ALL="C" PATH="/usr/pkg/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-netbsd/bin:/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/.cwrapper/bin:/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/.buildlink/bin:/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/.gcc/bin:/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/.tools/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin" VSLANG="1033" "cc" "-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib/libatomic" "-Wl,-L/usr/pkg/lib/libatomic" "-m64" "/tmp/rustcQRUpW1/symbols.o" "/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/nushell-0.97.1/target/release/deps/nu-5128808a168dd35a.447nozcbzygncjur.rcgu.o" "/usr/pkgsrc/wip/nushell/work/nushell-0.97.1/target/release/deps/
> > [...]
> > = note: gcc: fatal error: cannot execute 'ld': execvp: Argument list too long
> > compilation terminated.
> > 
> > 
> > error: could not compile `nu` (bin "nu") due to 1 previous error
> > *** Error code 101
> > 
> > Stop.
> > 
> > Any clues on how to fix this?
> > Thanks,
> > Pedro
> 
> Just adding a bit more context,
> This is nushell-0.96.1 on a bulk build,
> http://shadow.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/HEAD/NetBSD-10.0-x86_64/20240821.1314/nushell-0.96.1/build.log
> 
> I have no issues building this version on my system,
> NetBSD mybox 10.99.11 NetBSD 10.99.11 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Aug 19 17:53:44 UTC 2024
> 
> But, I'm hiting this error when locally building the new release 0.97.1

This is a really long command line.

The limit on NetBSD is lower than on other operating systems:
# sysctl kern.argmax
kern.argmax = 262144

(on macOS for example it is 1048576).

Talk to upstream how to reduce this?
 Thomas