Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | Keith Owens <> | | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:28:19 +1100 |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 07:03:04 +0300 (MSK), "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> wrote: >In <m12Tvjn-0006hEC@grumbeer.inka.de> Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de) wrote: >> I tried to compile it with everything enabled (as module if possible) >> and got the following error: > >> find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f >> xargs: environment is too large for exec >> make: *** [clean] Error 1 > >> What's that? I never saw that before ;-) > >Linux can not execute program with command line longer then 128KiB. It's >what happened. It was discussed recently. Looks like noone (apart of me and >Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> :-) is interested in fixing that. >Jamie promised to cook up better patch then mine but so far I've not seen >anything ...
The command line is not the problem, it is the environment space that is too big. This patch fixes the problem. I originally sent it in against 2.3.40 and got no response. Maybe it will get into 2.3.52.
================= Index: 51.1/Makefile --- 51.1/Makefile Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:54:23 +1100 keith (linux-2.3/M/b/40_Makefile 1.7.1.19.1.3.1.3.1.7.2.1.1.11 644) +++ linux/Makefile Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:24:12 +1100 keith (linux-2.3/M/b/40_Makefile 1.7.1.19.1.3.1.3.1.7.2.1.1.11 644) @@ -358,15 +358,15 @@ TAGS: dummy etags `find include/asm-$(ARCH) -name '*.h'` - find include -type d \( -name "asm-*" -o -name config \) -prune -o -name '*.h' -print | xargs etags -a - find $(SUBDIRS) init -name '*.c' | xargs etags -a + find include -type d \( -name "asm-*" -o -name config \) -prune -o -name '*.h' -print | sh scripts/xargs etags -a + find $(SUBDIRS) init -name '*.c' | sh scripts/xargs etags -a # Exuberant ctags works better with -I tags: dummy CTAGSF=`ctags --version | grep -i exuberant >/dev/null && echo "-I __initdata,__initlocaldata,__exitdata,EXPORT_SYMBOL,EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS"`; \ ctags $$CTAGSF `find include/asm-$(ARCH) -name '*.h'` && \ - find include -type d \( -name "asm-*" -o -name config \) -prune -o -name '*.h' -print | xargs ctags $$CTAGSF -a && \ - find $(SUBDIRS) init -name '*.c' | xargs ctags $$CTAGSF -a + find include -type d \( -name "asm-*" -o -name config \) -prune -o -name '*.h' -print | sh scripts/xargs ctags $$CTAGSF -a && \ + find $(SUBDIRS) init -name '*.c' | sh scripts/xargs ctags $$CTAGSF -a MODFLAGS += -DMODULE ifdef CONFIG_MODULES @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ clean: archclean rm -f kernel/ksyms.lst include/linux/compile.h - find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f + find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | sh scripts/xargs rm -f rm -f core `find . -type f -name 'core' -print` rm -f core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print` rm -f vmlinux System.map @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ sync sums: - find . -type f -print | sort | xargs sum > .SUMS + find . -type f -print | sort | sh scripts/xargs sum > .SUMS dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep include/linux/version.h scripts/mkdep init/*.c > .depend @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ # make checkconfig: Prune 'scripts' directory to avoid "false positives". checkconfig: - find * -name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | grep -v scripts/ | sort | xargs perl -w scripts/checkconfig.pl + find * -name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | grep -v scripts/ | sort | sh scripts/xargs perl -w scripts/checkconfig.pl checkhelp: perl -w scripts/checkhelp.pl `find * -name [cC]onfig.in -print` Index: 51.1/scripts/xargs --- 51.1/scripts/xargs Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:24:59 +1100 keith () +++ linux/scripts/xargs Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:24:12 +1100 keith (linux-2.3/N/c/0_xargs 644) @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# xargs has hardwired limits on the "sensible" environment size. A +# kernel compile with every config option turned on blows this limit. +# Strip out CONFIG_ env variables before calling xargs. +unset `env | grep '^CONFIG_' | sed -e 's/=.*//'` +xargs "$@" =================
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