37095 - Make distclean failes: too many args on command line

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P3)

Description

[lduperval]

HPUX 10.10
M15 sources
Using GNU rm
Shell: tcsh 6.04.00

Running make distclean fails because the command line is too long. I believe
that the DIST_GARBAGE variable contains too many */Makefiles. Not sure how that
can be fixed.

Comment 1

[cls]

This should be mine.

Comment 2

[cls]

Attachment: Detect & use xargs to delete huge list of Makefiles

Comment 3

[cls]

mkaply, dose OS/2 have the xargs command?
jdunn, can you verify that the 'echo | xargs rm' does work on hpux?

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Yep, we have a gnu xargs. Now whether or not it will work like you want...

Comment 5

[Jim Dunn]

I applied these changes to an hp 11.00 build and it works fine...
will now try a 10.20 build...  (don't have a 10.10)

Comment 6

[Jim Dunn]

I saw that you checked this the diffs...
but, I finally got to try this on HP 10.20 and it isn't working,
I am still seeing the error
"execvp: /bin/sh: Arg list too long"

Will continue to look at this.

Comment 7

[cls]

Attachment: Pipe huge list of makefiles directly into xargs rather than use make variable

Comment 8

[Jim Dunn]

This latest diff (combined with the earlier one) works on HP10.20.

r= [e-mail]

Comment 9

[cls]

Patch has been checked in.