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A developer just discovered a problem using GNU make on the Apollo,
with Aegis SR10.3.5 operating system.  (We tried both version 3.59 and 3.62.7
of GNU make.)

One of his targets includes a system directive to rm all of the object
files in a directory.  GNU make prints out the expanded version of the
rm command, and then errors out, saying

gmake: execve: /bsd4.3/bin/rm: Arg list too long
gmake: *** [clean_all] Error 127

The execve man page on the Apollo machine explains this error:

     [E2BIG]
                     The number of bytes in the new process' argument list is
                     larger than the system-imposed limit.  The limit in the
                     system as released is 10240 bytes (NCARGS in
                     <sys/param.h>.

Since the arg list was larger than 10240 bytes, execve failed, so gmake
errored out.

Has anyone devised a workaround to avoid this problem?  Or are we stuck with
having to alter our makefiles to keep argument lists short?

Thanks for any help...
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