Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Long command-line when building ethereal on Solaris

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:31:19 -0700
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:16:14PM -0500, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I tried building ethereal 0.8.18 on Solaris with a long --prefix and
> the compile barfed when building ethereal. With the -L paths and all
> the package-* files, the command-line limit was exceeded.

The one-megabyte (unless they've reduced it in SunOS 5.x) limit in the
kernel was exceeded?  Or was this a limit in, say, the C shell?  (The
Bourne and Korn shells don't have a wired in limit of the sort that the
C shell does.)  Or one in "make"?