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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:20:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   LINT fails due to '/bin/sh:Argument list too long'
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011126131816.91794C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Decided to run a LINT build on my POSIX.1e capability tree in p4 today,
and ran into something a bit unusual:

make buildkernel KERNCONF=LINT
...
boss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/kern/link_aout.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/kern/subr_diskmbr.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/divdi3.c /cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/moddi3.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/qdivrem.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/ucmpdi2.c /cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/udivdi3.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/libkern/umoddi3.c vnode_if.c hints.c env.c config.c
/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/i386/i386/genassym.c
/bin/sh:Argument list too long
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/LINT.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/obj/cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap/sys/LINT.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /cboss/p4/rwatson/trustedbsd/cap.


Looks like the number of C files in the kernel was finally too much for
the make depend :-).  Haven't seen this on my other trees I built LINT on
lately, so my guess is we're just at the threshold, and one or two more
files (such as in my p4 tree) bumps you over.

Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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