android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64 build fails on most Linux distribuations about perfetto HOT 5 CLOSED

okay I think we got to the state where the cmdline is so long for some targets that fail.

We need to switch to response files (.rsp) in GN+ninja

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I also tested a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 in a VM and it failed as well. I'm unclear what about my years old 22.04 install that i originally tested that allowed this to succeed.

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Can you repeat doing the followign:

• Build normally first as many targets as possible until step 7 fails:

• ninja -C out/android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64 -k 9999

• Then build with ninja -C out/android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64 -j1 -v

• Report the full cmdline that errors out

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I performed those steps, but with one minor tweak.

Your second command, ninja -C out/android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64 -j1 -v fails before any useful info gets printed, and just outputs the following:

ninja: Entering directory `out/android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64/'
ninja: fatal: posix_spawn: Argument list too long

To work around this, I instead modified this command to do a dry-run with "-n" so that we can see what the 1st command actually is: ninja -C out/android_release_incl_heapprofd_arm64 -j1 -v -n

the dry-run command i ran prints the full build commands which you can find in the attached txt file.
argument-list-too-long-dry-run.txt

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r.android.com/2976893 should be the fix to this.

Thanks for reporting

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