RE: Request for Help - Too many perl arguments as of 2.43.0-rc0

[<rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On November 3, 2023 4:52 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 3:03 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> I can no longer test git as the number of arguments (and size) sent to
>> perl from the make infrastructure is too big for my platform. Is it
>> possible to use xargs instead?
>
>Presumably you're talking about the invocation of chainlint.pl?
>Considering that that's quite an unimportant part of `make test` for those just
>running the test suite (as opposed to those authoring new tests), the simplest
>workaround is to disable chainlint when you run the tests by setting environment
>variable GIT_TEST_EXT_CHAIN_LINT to 0.

I tried both ways to specify this variable with no success:

/home/randall/git: make -C t/ all SHELL=/usr/coreutils/bin/bash GIT_TEST_EXT_CHAIN_LINT=0
make: Entering directory '/home/randall/git/t'
rm -f -r 'test-results'
/usr/coreutils/bin/bash: /usr/bin/perl: Argument list too long
Makefile:125: recipe for target 'test-lint-shell-syntax' failed
make: *** [test-lint-shell-syntax] Error 126
make: Leaving directory '/home/randall/git/t'
/home/randall/git: GIT_TEST_EXT_CHAIN_LINT=0 make -C t/ all SHELL=/usr/coreutils/bin/bash
make: Entering directory '/home/randall/git/t'
rm -f -r 'test-results'
/usr/coreutils/bin/bash: /usr/bin/perl: Argument list too long
Makefile:125: recipe for target 'test-lint-shell-syntax' failed
make: *** [test-lint-shell-syntax] Error 126
make: Leaving directory '/home/randall/git/t'