From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17675 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2008 15:31:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 17660 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2008 15:31:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cantor2.suse.de (HELO mx2.suse.de) (195.135.220.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:31:11 +0000 Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEB04599D; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:31:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Jim Marshall , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Build issue on AIX 5.2 References: <361367.53382.qm@web34401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080630152239.GC1318@adacore.com> X-Yow: .. someone in DAYTON, Ohio is selling USED CARPETS to a SERBO-CROATIAN Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:31:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080630152239.GC1318@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:39 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker writes: >> Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails >> trying to create a 'doc' directory. > > Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that has a very > low limitation in terms of the argument list size. That is usually a system limitation, not a shell limit. > The command line from your transcript doesn't look all that long! The limit also includes the size of the environment. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."