On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:42:36AM -0400, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu writes:
> > 
> > alpha> /usr/bin/tar -plzx  -C /usr/pkg/share/texmf  -X
> > /usr/pkgsrc/print/teTeX-share/files/exclude  -f 
> > /u2/disk1/distfiles/teTeX/teTeX-texmf-1.0.2.tar.gz
> > alpha> xargs: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> > 
> > 
> > anyone know about this error?  "xargs: /bin/ls: Argument list too long"
> > and what we may be losing becasue of it?
> 
> It may be coming from the print-pkg-size-this target of bsd.pkg.mk, in
> which case we'd just be getting a misleading pkg-size in the binary
> package.  I'm not sure how to check whether this is actually producing
> the error, aside from throwing in a few "echo" lines into bsd.pkg.mk.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
>      -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
>         Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
>         http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
> 

"make install PKG_DEBUG_LEVEL=2" should throw all the information out
for you.

Regards,
Alistair