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Re: ar: arg list too long
Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:51:25PM -0500, Roger Collins wrote:
> >
> > Still working on making this work on svr4 (UnixWare 2.1).
> > Now I get this:
> > make[4]: execvp: ar: Arg list too long.
> > Any ideas?
>
> One thing that can delay getting the message is severly reducing the size of
> your environment, because the kernel has a fixed limit on the total space to
> pass both the environment variables and arguments.
UnixWare 2 is history for me, but if Michael's suggestions don't pan out
for you, I think I recall that there was a kernel tunable to bump the
number up.
But before you do, verify that 'env' doesn't show you with an 8K termcap
and that you're not using a 'make' that exports vars like crazy.
RJL