Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: > I am root on my (Linux) system and I set the stack size to unlimited. The > libtool macro reported a few billion (or something other really large) > for maximum argument list length, bash also agreed (it easily executed > the "distdir" target when copied into a bash script), but make doesn't. > Both gnu make and pmake abort with the "too long" message.
What Linux kernel version are you using? Note that linux-2.6.23 and later kernels have changed how this is handled. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/ http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Argument-list-too-long Bob
