Subject: Re: make(1) hack to get NetBSD tools working on Mac OS X
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 03/13/2003 22:53:14
On Thu Mar 13 2003 at 09:46:48 -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> So, yesterday I managed to get the tools finally building on a Mac OS X
> host.
> 
> The biggest problem is that ARG_MAX is only 64K on OS X (vs. 256K on many
> other modern systems).  This presents a problem, since bootstrapping the
> tools causes many make variables to be set on the command line, meaning
> that we blow ARG_MAX pretty quickly.

FreeBSD suffers from the same lack of ARG_MAX, so you might probably
enable the hack for it as well.

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/                          http://www.NetBSD.org/
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