[arch-general] make/ execvp error : argument list is too long

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On 22 Mar 2013 14:29, "arnaud gaboury" <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I have an issue since 5-10 days when building android from source, as when
> I have been building it for months with no problem.
>
> At one point in the building process, make will stop with this error:
> make: execvp: /bin/bash: Argument list too long
>
> After some search, I found this error is thrown by execvp(), following the
> errors specified in man execve(2).
>
> The execvpe() function appears in glibc. My glibc is the one from core,
> 2.17-3, and has been reinstalled. Building AUR packages don't give any
> error.
>
> The android ROM I am building is very closed to the android open source,
> and build fine on another machine (Linux Mint). So I suspect the problem
> comes from my box.
>
> The following line from android envsetup output puzzles me:
> HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-3.8.4-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5
>
>
> What is this glibc2.2.5 ??
I think it's the glibc version of the box that compiled the kernel.

>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Regards.