Re: [Announcement] linux-kernel v2.0.39

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:27:44 +1100,
> Eyal Lebedinsky <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >My 'make dep' fails in the following way. This is on Debian 2.2, I
> >commented
> >if [ -n "amigamouse.c atarimouse.c atixlmouse.c baycom.c busmouse.c
> >cd1865.h conmakehash.c console.c console_struct.h consolemap.c
> >consolemap.h cyclades.c defkeymap.c diacr.h digi.h digi_bios.h
> >digi_fep.h fbmem.c fep.h h8.c h8.h isicom.c istallion.c kbd_kern.h
> >keyb_m68k.c keyboard.c lp.c lp_intern.c lp_m68k.c mem.c misc.c
> >msbusmouse.c n_tty.c pcwd.c pcxx.c pcxx.h psaux.c pty.c random.c
> >riscom8.c riscom8.h riscom8_reg.h rtc.c scc.c selection.c selection.h
> >serial.c softdog.c specialix.c specialix_io8.h stallion.c tga.c
> >tpqic02.c tty_io.c tty_ioctl.c vc_screen.c vesa_blank.c vga.c vt.c
> >vt_kern.h wd501p.h wdt.c" ]; then \
> >/usr/local/src/linux/scripts/mkdep *.[chS] > .depend; fi
> >make[2]: *** [fastdep] Error 135
> 
> 135 == 128+7 => E2BIG (Arg list too long).  What does
>   ls -l /usr/local/src/linux/drivers/char/*.[chS] | wc
> report?  And which kernel/libc are you compiling on?

This is a current Debian 2.2 (potato, I think it is now at r3)

# ls -l /usr/local/src/linux-2.0/drivers/char/*.[chS] | wc
     62     558    6434

# gcc --version
2.95.2

# uname -a
Linux eyal 2.4.0-ac3 #1 Sun Jan 7 12:15:50 EST 2001 i686 unknown

# ls -l /lib/libc-*.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1057576 Oct 14 05:45
/lib/libc-2.1.95.so

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Eyal Lebedinsky ([e-mail]) <http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/>