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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Cullen <David.Cullen@koe-americas.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	"linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Fix "/usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long" during make distclean
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:38:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502965BE.3070406@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502957D5.1070800@koe-americas.com>

On 08/13/2012 12:39 PM, David Cullen wrote:
> When running "make distclean" in a cross chroot environment, the
> following messages are emitted:
> 
>     [user@host:/home/work/linux]: make distclean
>     /usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long
>     make: *** [clean] Error 126
> 

That sounds like a bug in xargs...

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 19:39 [PATCH RFC] Fix "/usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long" during make distclean David Cullen
2012-08-13 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-13 20:56   ` David Cullen
2012-08-13 20:56     ` David Cullen
2012-08-13 21:01     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-14 12:54       ` David Cullen
2012-08-14 12:54         ` David Cullen

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