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Re: Problem with 'sh' while archiving libc_pic.a
- To: "Koundinya.K" <kk at ddeorg dot soft dot net>
- Subject: Re: Problem with 'sh' while archiving libc_pic.a
- From: Ralf Baechle <ralf at uni-koblenz dot de>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:39:06 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200006140508.KAA01892@madras.ddeorg.soft.net>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:38:24AM +0530, Koundinya.K wrote:
> I suspected that this problem could be with 'sh'. On my system 'sh' is 'bash'
> like linux systems. using the native 'sh' also did not solve the problem. I
> tried to look into sources of ar. But got no hints in that too. I am able to
> selectively archive the files.
>
> Have anyone faced any such problem ?. Is thre any other workaround ??
As the others already have pointed out you've run into a kernel limitation.
If you're running IRIX you can issue the command ``systune ncargs 131072''
as root to raise the limit. No idea if other SysV Unices also allow
tuning of this limit or what mechanism they use to do so.
Ralf