[aur-general] exec and argument list too long

[Jakub Klinkovský]

On 22.03.13 at 10:49, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jakub Klinkovský <kuba.klinkovsky at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > On 20.03.13 at 14:04, Martti Kühne wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM, arnaud gaboury
> > > <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Dear list,
> > > >
> > > > I came to this issue when building android:
> > > >
> > > > make: execvp: /bin/bash: Argument list too long
> > > >
> > > > From what I understand, the reason for this annoyance is that Linux
> > kernel
> > > > has a limitation of bytes it can process through as arguments in exec()
> > > > commands.
> > > > This issue is quite new and arise with Kernel > 3.8.1. I am currently
> > on
> > > > 3.8.3-2 ARCH from testing.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What in the world would require you to pass that many arguments to a
> > command?
> > > I'd like to see that command for future generations here...
> > > try fixing the Makefile?
> > >
> > > cheers!
> > > mar77i
> >
> > It's not the number of arguments, it's number of bytes used for arguments
> > and
> > environment variables[1]. Full paths are often included in 'argv[0]', and
> > when
> > not building in clean environment, the limit can be easily reached.
> >
> > [1]: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/argmax/
> >
> 
> I understand it is a question of bytes and not character or argument
> numbers. But I still can't build anymore android, when it has been possible
> for months.
> Which change in my system could have triggered this error? Same source and
> same makefiles work on other boxes, so I suppose it is specific to my
> machine.
> 
> Thank you for help as I need to find a way to build android.

You can run 'env -i makepkg' to start build in clean environment.

You should start a thread on the forum regarding this issue. Btw you didn't even
mention which package exactly you are building (and preferably provide link so
that we don't have to search for it).
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