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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Trouble porting X11R4 to ISC 2.2 - "Arg list too long"?
Keywords: Arg list too big
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.194146.22013@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 16 Dec 90 19:41:46 GMT
References: <125@chansw.UUCP> <51243@bigtex.cactus.org>
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In article <51243@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
]In <125@chansw.UUCP>, m2c!chansw!chan wrote:
]> Anybody successfully build the X11R4 core images (i.e., xterm,
]> shared lib's, etc.) on ISC 2.2?  I seem to have run into a problem
]> midway through the "make ... World" process where the error
]>      "$?: Arg list too long"
]
]No, you've found a bug in make(1).  Some array is too small.  You can
]use GNU make or get your unix vendor to fix the make(1) bug.

	Actually, not removing all the *~ files after doing the
	patches will generally cause this problem.

	-randy

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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us