Alistair Crooks wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:34:27AM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 17:12:20 -1000, Paul NCC/CS wrote:
> >
> > > Now, ulimit? How do I increase this? Where do I?
> > > This is something I need to learn so I intend to do
> > > some reading on it, but could you or anyone point
> > > me at information on how to increase this value
> > > please?
> >
> > This depends on your shell.  csh(1) has 'limit' command, sh(1) has
> > 'ulimit'.  E.g.  here are sample commands for bash:
> >
> > <uwe@krups:~> (1032) ulimit -S -s             # soft limit on stack size
> > 512
> > <uwe@krups:~> (1033) ulimit -H -s             # hard limit
> > 262144
> > <uwe@krups:~> (1034) ulimit -s 8192           # set soft limit
> > <uwe@krups:~> (1035) ulimit -s                        # verify (-S is default)
> > 8192
> >
> > See your shell's manual for details on its limit/ulimit command.
> > See getrlimit(2) for further details.
>
> If the clisp was being built from pkgsrc, then please let us know.
> Matthias Scheler recently introduced some definitions which we
> use to unlimit specific resources during a package's build:
>
> [10:15:02] agc@fs0 /usr/pkgsrc 4 > grep UNLIMIT_RESOURCES */*/Make*
> emulators/xmame/Makefile:UNLIMIT_RESOURCES=     datasize
> emulators/xmess/Makefile:UNLIMIT_RESOURCES=     datasize
> graphics/imlib/Makefile:UNLIMIT_RESOURCES=      datasize
> x11/kdelibs2/Makefile:UNLIMIT_RESOURCES=        datasize
> [10:18:58] agc@fs0 /usr/pkgsrc 5 >
>
> and the stacksize can be unlimited in a similar way, just by
> using one definition.
>
> If you are using pkgsrc, please let us know, so that we can
> add the appropriate definitions to the package Makefile.
>
> Regards,
> Alistair

Alistair,
It's ok I think. I suspect there was nothing wrong
with the pgksrc. Upon resetting the limits in the shell
clisp compiled and installed ok. I had changed the
root shell to tcsh which has limits. Default csh has
deafult limits as maximum I think.

cheers,
Paul,
Bureau of Met.
Australia.