Re: gnumake[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are

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From:	Jon Grant
Subject:	Re: gnumake[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are too long
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:55:05 +0100
User-agent:	Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070103)

Hi,

address@hidden wrote on 10/08/07 21:33:

gnumake[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are too
long.
gnumake[1]: *** [clean] Error 127

I've not seen this myself, looks like a hard coded system limit. is theenvironment list longer than 32KB?

Too allow someone to look further, please provide steps to reproduce,including makefile, OS and make --version info.


Kind regards
Jon

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