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

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From: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:56:05 -0500
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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"?

It's with the bourne shell. Libtool is called with the correct
command-line but the shell command it generates is too long. As
libtool calls /bin/sh, it would appear to be a limitation in the
Solaris bourne shell (failed on Solaris 2.6/SPARC).

I bumped libtool to the version in the CVS MLB (multi-lang) branch
which detects the limit of the command-line (500k) but still had the
problem.

I'll play around a little bit more.

-- 
albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)