[PATCH 2.4] make dep can fail (too many args)

Frank Mehnert (fm3@kurt.inf.tu-dresden.de)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:49:39 +0200


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Hi Linus,

in some cases "make dep" can fail with

"/bin/sh: scripts/mkdep: Arg list too long"

So it does on AIX (cross compiling for x86).
I would suggest to use

"find <blah> | xargs scripts/mkdep"

when generating $(TOPDIR)/.hdepend instead of

"scripts/mkdep `find <blah>`"

The appended patch is for 2.4.0-test6.

regards,

Frank

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Frank Mehnert
## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ##
## E-Mail: fm3@os.inf.tu-dresden.de    http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##

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