id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
1785,xargs failure,guest,simonmar,"I don't know how the file `libraries/base/GNUMakefile` is generated. Maybe this is a cabal bug.

My build of ghc-6.8.0.20071017 failed as follows:

{{{
...
t/build/Unsafe/Coerce_split -name '*.o' -print) | xargs -s 30000 /usr/ccs/bin/ar
 q  dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.a
xargs: 0 < max-cmd-line-size <= 2048: 30000
xargs: Usage: xargs: [-t] [-p] [-e[eofstr]] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr] [-i[replstr
]] [-L #] [-l[#]] [-n # [-x]] [-s size] [cmd [args ...]]
gmake[2]: *** [dist/build/libHSbase-3.0.a] Error 2
}}}

if I replace 30000 with 2048 compilation goes through, but I don't know if something is cut off.

(also see  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/98#comment:2)",bug,closed,normal,6.8.1,Compiler,6.8,fixed,,Christian.Maeder@…,Solaris,x86,,Unknown,,,,