On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 14:45 +0800, Robert Yang wrote: > There would be an error when building gcc-cross in the do_install stage > if the TMPDIR's length is more than 200 characters: > > make[1]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long > > This is because of the limit of /usr/include/linux/limits.h: > > $ grep PATH_MAX /usr/include/linux/limits.h > #define PATH_MAX 4096 /* # chars in a path name including nul */ > > I don't think it's worth to fix the do_install of gcc-cross, but it would > be good if we can add a check in oe-init-build-env or meta/classes > /sanity.bbclass to check wether the TMPDIR(or build directory) is longer than > a > reasonable vaule, e.g., 1/16th or 1/32th of PATH_MAX? If you are OK with this, > I'd like to work on it. > > To reproduce the error: > > $ cd /path/to/workdir/ > $ for i in `seq 20`; do mkdir _23_5_78_; cd _23_5_78_; done > $ source /path/to/poky/oe-init-build-env > $ bitbake gcc-cross > > Then the error comes. > > $ pwd | wc -c > 224
I think sanity.bbclass would be a good place to have a one time check of the length of TMPDIR... Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
