FTBFS on Hurd

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:28:52PM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> > You and me both. It's scary to be maintaining a project with 60+% of its
> > users running on Windows and at the same time having NO CLUE about
> > Windows... :')
> I wonder when this will be a major issue: having most developers on one 
> platform and most users on another. At my previous workplace we had 1 guy only 
> on windows, and then he switched and then we had nobody checking what our own 
> product looked like on windows.

I constantly build it for Windows and we have about half a dozen of our
really active testing-contributors on Windows. So I think we are in
reasonably good shape there.

> > I'd say it's sufficient and given the memory use overall it makes no
> > difference.
> Yeah that's true, I am just a bit wary of big stack allocations.
> 
> > Is there a reason you can't use something like 4096? I have no experience
> > with Hurd, either, so I'm not sure if there is a reason that would be a
> > bad idea.
> Nope on Hurd any value works fine, they don't have any hardcoded limit, so for 
> them even 20MiB is ok. But I suppose filesystems have limits.
> 
> > In my mind anyone who uses a file path with more than 2000 characters gets
> > what they deserve...
> I sent a patch where it's set to 260, feel free to add one more digit then!

Yeah, as Thiago said in his comment... 4096 seems more reasonable to me.

/D