On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:43 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > For some time now, each time I try to build an RPM it fails with something > like: > > + /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot > xargs: /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths-worker: Argument list too long > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.39544 (%install) > > This I have traced back to xargs(1) generating huge argument lists, which > the called command can't handle. Doing a "make clean" in a self-built > kernel gives the same type of grief (I tweaked the Makefile there to call > xargs with "-L 2000" to get it to work). > > I wonder how everybody else here is able to get anything done... > > findutils-4.2.31-2.fc8 on rawhide, fully up to date. well, if you aren't doing execve syscall argument logging with the audit system feel free to up /proc/sys/kernel/audit_argv_kb. If that fixes your troubles wait until 2.6.25 when my patch to finish unlimiting this stuff goes into kernel.... -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
