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Subject: Re: Argument list too long
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 19:49, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:44:46PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> > When building ports, quite often I get messages like this.  I don't
> > suppose that it can be good.
>=20
> Are you sure you have an up-to-date bsd.port.mk?

The problem is actually with GNOME which has such a long dependency
list.  When ${PKG_ARGS} is built, the actual command line causes sh to
get a E2BIG.  I've been looking at it since last night, but I haven't
found a good way to process the argument list.

Joe

>=20
> Kris


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