Use find + xargs to compress the generated manpages. Without this patch, the build can fail with gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9 /bin/bash: /usr/bin/gzip: Argument list too long This happened with qemu user mode emulation on aarch64. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 9c7d92d..b6a6a2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML) MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS)) mandocs: $(MAN) - $(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9) + find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f installmandocs: mandocs mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/ -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html