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For anyone who ends up with an "argument list too long" error when trying to build Android: run ulimit -s 9999999 first. The maximum command line size on Linux is a percentage of the stack size ulimit.

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I'm curious whether this is just an oversight in the build script. I recently ran into the "argument list too long" issue with my shell, and it was because I was using subshells instead of named pipes.

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"Oversight" is a very kind way of putting "they NIH'd an utterly hideous build system just because they couldn't be bothered to understand how good existing ones are supposed to work".

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The build system was previously GNU make but moved away to make incremental builds much faster (via ninja) and more reliable (via declarative build specifications without code). The old build system avoided recursive make (a good thing) which led to hilarious make memory usage.

11:32 AM · Oct 22, 2019Twitter Web App

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