On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:53:14PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:

 > > 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.

Aha, yes, so that is from whence Mac OS X inherits the brain-damage.  Ok,
I'll add FreeBSD to the list.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>