Re: Arg list too long

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From: R. Day
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 13:00

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gnu-bash-bug@nl.net wrote:
: In <1994Feb14.181931.12695@beaver.cs.washington.edu> drupp@cs.washington.edu (Douglas Rupp) writes:

: >I installed bash (Bourne Again SHell) on my ODT 3.0 (Sco Unix 3.2v4.2) system
: >on the suggestion that it would get rid of my "arg list too long" errors
: >when doing simple commands like ls, mv, cp, rm, etc.  However it didn't.
: >Where is this coming from?  Is there some parameter I can increase when
: >building bash?  Is it the command itself that has the limitation?  Is it
: >the system exec call?  Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

For any gnu package that gives you this error, try the make from a non-ODT
window, and also try:

$ env - PATH=$PATH make ...

to clear out the environment first.  This is what did it for me.

R. Day

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