[CMake] "the input line is too long" error after upgrading from 2.8.2 to 2.8.3

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Mon Nov 15 13:48:17 EST 2010


On 11/15/2010 1:36 PM, Dieter Oberkofler wrote:
> I'm having a hard time to understand why after upgrading from CMake 2.8.2 to
> 2.8.3 I get "the input line is too long" when running nmake.
> The problem must be related to the upgrade because moving back to 6.8.2 with
> the absolute same build environment works like a charm.
> The error message seems to generated by a rather long (about 500 characters)
> command in a ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND section.
>
> Did someone else have this kind of problem?
You seem to be the first.
> Is it a known bug?
No.
> Any ideas on how to track this down or if there are any workarounds?
>
Time machine, and have you try one of the many release candidates, and 
get this fixed before the release...  :)

Assuming that can not be done, please create a bug entry in mantis, and 
try to create a small reproducible example of the problem.

-Bill




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