From: Ken Foskey <foskey@optushome.com.au>
To: gcc help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Arg list too long" during bootstrap
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:26:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093692558.1729.302.camel@froddo.foskey.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vff3einw.fsf@network-theory.co.uk>
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 19:06, Brian Gough wrote:
> Generally it is the number of arguments that is the issue. There is
> usually a way to increase the limit with a kernel parameter (via
> smitty chgsys on AIX, I think).
arg lists are generally the shell not system. If you can figure out a
script name you could try switching the #!/bin/sh line to your bash
line. ksh (sh in aix generally) has a 1k or 2k limit whereas bash has
4k. You could also tweak the script to use xargs if appropriate.
--
Thanks
KenF
OpenOffice.org developer
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 11:29 UTC|newest]
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2004-08-28 11:29 David Kramer
2004-08-28 23:51 ` Brian Gough
2004-08-29 15:26 ` Ken Foskey [this message]
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