Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.... Yep, that fixes this. Thanks! But isn't it supposed that xargs asks the kernel for the maximal size of ARGV? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
