Merge branch 'add-allow_argsfile-to-tasks' into 'master'

task: winres: allow tasks to disable @argsfile

Closes #2224

See merge request ita1024/waf!2216

waflib/Task.py

@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ class Task(evil):
 	always_run = False
 	"""Specify whether task instances must always be executed or not (class attribute)"""
 
+	allow_argsfile = True
+	"""Specify whether task instances support the @argsfile shortcut for sunting arguments to a file (class attribute)"""
+
 	shell = False
 	"""Execute the command with the shell (class attribute)"""
 
@@ -313,7 +316,7 @@ class Task(evil):
 			cmd_bytes = sum([len(arg) for arg in cmd]) + len(cmd) -1
 			# Shunt arguments to a temporary file if the command is
 			# going to be too long.
-			if (cmd_bytes >= 8192 if Utils.is_win32 else cmd_bytes > 200000):
+			if self.allow_argsfile and (cmd_bytes >= 8192 if Utils.is_win32 else cmd_bytes > 200000):
 				cmd, args = self.split_argfile(cmd)
 				try:
 					(fd, tmp) = tempfile.mkstemp()

waflib/Tools/winres.py

@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ class rc_parser(c_preproc.c_parser):
 	"""
 	Calculates dependencies in .rc files
 	"""
+	allow_argsfile = False
+
 	def filter_comments(self, node):
 		"""
 		Overrides :py:meth:`waflib.Tools.c_preproc.c_parser.filter_comments`