Subject: Re: setting limit in pkg Makefile?
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/15/1998 14:35:14
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > Is there a prefered way to change the 'datasize' limit for packages?  I'm

> If it's just for compiling, putting something like
> 
> do-build:
> 	limit datasize 40000 ; make
> 

except that 'limit' is not understood by 'sh' which is where the do-build
stuff gets run.  For now, I can do

% limit datasize 40000
% make

from my tcsh prompt, 
but thats not so nice for people doing batch builds....


Dan