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RE: gnumake[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are
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Paul Smith |
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RE: gnumake[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are too long |
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Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:58:55 -0400 |
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 22:31 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> How it looks on our GNUmakefile, if sources specified within the limit
> around 450, this error occurs otherwise it reports error the parameter
> or environment list are too long.
The maximum size of the environment for a new process (which includes
not only the environment variables but also the command line arguments)
is a limit set by the operating system (the kernel). It has nothing to
do with GNU make and there is no possible way that GNU make can increase
that limit: it's not modifiable from user space (in fact typically it
can't be modified except by recompiling the kernel).
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