Patch to remove putenv definition from gcc.c

John David Anglin dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Wed Mar 28 14:33:00 GMT 2001


> There was talk of revising collect2's interface so it didn't use
> environment variables anymore.  If that ever happens, we wouldn't need
> putenv from gcc.c.

That's a good idea because the size of gcc's environment exceeds POSIX
minimums and causes trouble for systems with small ARG_MAX limits.  This
caused exec failures under ultrix in the bootstrap.  The problem was
resolved by hacking gnu make so it didn't export variables by default
and a small change to the gcc Makefile.  However, gcc still exports
too much.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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