On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 01:53:10PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS) wrote:
> perhaps i've answered my own question, but i'd
> still be grateful to here opinions on the use of tcsh
> as a root shell for building pkgsrc?

The default user rlimits are not depending on the shell you use (some are
set depending on your available memory).

I use tcsh as root shell (on various archs), and have not seen any problems.

I think I remember some pkgs explicitly testing for low limits and asking
to rise them before starting the build, maybe some pkgs do miss this (or
the needed resources have grown with some update)

Martin