[Scons-users] License of code posted on SCons GitHub wiki

[Mats Wichmann]

On 1/14/22 23:48, Kaelin Laundry wrote:
> Thanks Bill!
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> 
> That makes sense and I appreciate the thoughts. Given the context, I’m
> pretty comfortable drawing from the wiki for this.
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> Our command lines are a bit over the 8192 limit; I think it was 8300 or
> so. This is specific to our test configuration when linking a binary
> including the app and its test suites. The object files are nested a
> level or two deep, making the file path strings a bit long.
> 
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> A teammate of mine came across this docs page
> (https://scons.org/doc/3.0.4/HTML/scons-api/SCons.Platform.TempFileMunge-class.html
> <https://scons.org/doc/3.0.4/HTML/scons-api/SCons.Platform.TempFileMunge-class.html>)
> which seems to suggest an alternative by redirecting the parameters to a
> temp file and then having the tool pull its args from the file. We
> haven’t gotten to testing this yet but if it works with gcc
> (coordinating the linker) it would be preferable over the hack
> previously discussed.

Yes the TempFileMunge stuff is supported, and if doesn't work you can
file issues against it.  One project submitted a change not too long ago
to fix a problem, so we know it's in use.