[aur-general] exec and argument list too long

[arnaud gaboury]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Jakub Klinkovský <kuba.klinkovsky at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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).
>


First line in OP :

<quote> I came to this issue when building android: <quote>

http://source.android.com/source/building-devices.html