GMAKE error with many variables

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From: Shaun Smith
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 19:11

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I'm posting this for someone without access to news:

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platform: SUN-3/60
os: SUNOS 4.0.1

I have a medium sized makefile with a large number of variables defined (258).
When I run the makefile it attempts to rebuild my targets but gets an
error from execve indicating too many parameters have been sent. If I comment
out some of my variable definitions then the problem goes away and the shell
is exec'd correctly. Sometimes /bin/sh or /bin/cc complain about the number
of parameters instead of execve. In any event it seems to be directly related
to either the number of variables defined or the amount of text stored in
the variables. Possible memory overwrite problem?

Thanks for your time.
Reid.

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   Shaun

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