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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Failure Compiling X386 1.1 on ESIX 3.2.D
Message-ID: <1991Mar06.155939.14241@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:59:39 GMT
References: <226@kalahari.cs.utexas.edu> <3440013@hparc0.HP.COM>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <3440013@hparc0.HP.COM> linas@hparc0.HP.COM (Linas Petras) 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
]I had a similar problem, but using GNU make (3.59 I think). I switched
]back to SCO's make and all works well.

	Actually, be sure you remove all the *~ files left over after
	doing the patch thing.  The gazzillions of *~ files laying
	around tend to overflow some of make's internal buffers.

	-randy

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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us