# On MSYS, building with SplitObjs=YES fails with
# ar: Bad file number
# see #3201. We need to specify a smaller max command-line size
-# to work around it. 32767 doesn't work; 30000 does.
+# to work around it. 32767 doesn't work; 30000 does, but says
+# xargs: value for -s option should be < 28153
+# so we now use 20000 to be comfortably below this bound
XARGS = xargs
ifeq "$(Windows)" "YES"
-XARGS_OPTS = -s 30000
+XARGS_OPTS = -s 20000
endif
#