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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Failure Compiling X386 1.1 on ESIX 3.2.D
Message-ID: <12870013@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:26:39 GMT
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In comp.unix.sysv386, glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai) writes:

> When I tried to compile X386 1.1 according to Thomas Roell's instructions,
> I got the following message all over the place:
>
>         make[2]: execve: /bin/sh: Arg list too long
>
> It was not the first time I'd encountered such a problem.  I switched from
> /bin/make to GNU make 3.59, used GCC instead of cc, and tried sh, csh, and
> bash, but the problem persisted.

     I, too, had this problem.  The solution was to stop using both bash
(exit bash completely!) and GNU make, and use /bin/sh and /bin/make.

     -- Darryl Okahata
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