From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754445Ab2HMUif (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:38:35 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35292 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754339Ab2HMUie (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: <502965BE.3070406@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:38:22 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Cullen CC: Michal Marek , "linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Fix "/usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long" during make distclean References: <502957D5.1070800@koe-americas.com> In-Reply-To: <502957D5.1070800@koe-americas.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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