any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?

This package built successfully on ubuntu 8.10.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions!

Since the new method (splitting the files) will fail for anyone not
using a very recent linux kernel, I think I should revert to the old
consolidated files.

I suspect there is little interest from R-core in changing the build
script to link the files incrementally (is that possible).  To my
knowledge no other packages out there have such an insane amount of
files.

-Whit

Thanks for the link, Prof. Ripley.

What I suspect is happening is that there is a link command starting with
'g++' that is too long.
One useful ref: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax

interesting...

on my system:

[whit at linuxsvr src]$ getconf ARG_MAX
131072
[whit at linuxsvr src]$

Let me try on another machine w/ a more recent kernel before I take up
more of everyone's time.

-Whit