"Argument list too long" trying to compile java code

[Toby Crawley]

One option may be to write all of the command-line options to a tmp
file, and use the @filename option provided by javac:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html#commandlineargfile

javac task works by calling Java compiler passing it the full
classpath and all the java files that need compilation. The class path
+ all files could turn out to be a very large command line string, and
it can potentially exceed the limit allowed by the OS. (I'm getting
the error in Linux)
This error doesn't happen if the list of java files to compile is
smaller.
Do you have any workarounds for this problem? Do you think that makes
sense to send a PR splitting javac into multiple calls to the java
compiler with a shorter file list? That would be a temporary solution,
because very large classpaths could still exceed the command line
limit.
Thanks