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

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 5:31 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
> /usr/coreutils/bin/bash: /usr/bin/perl: Argument list too long
> Makefile:125: recipe for target 'test-lint-shell-syntax' failed

This is a separate issue from chainlint (though, it too will likely
suffer the same problem). In this case, it's trying to run the
check-non-portable-shell.pl script and the command-line is too long.
Unfortunately, unlike chainlint for which there is a knob to disble
it, there is no direct knob to disable `test-lint-shell-syntax`. You
may be able to skip all the shell-script linting by setting TEST_LINT
to an empty value.