Failure Compiling X386 1.1 on ESIX 3.2.D

Randy Suess randy at chinet.chi.il.us
Thu Mar 7 01:59:39 AEST 1991


In article <3440013 at hparc0.HP.COM> linas at 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 at chinet.chi.il.us



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