Build issue on AIX 5.2

[Andreas Schwab]

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

>> Then I run gmake and it runs for a long while but eventually fails
>> trying to create a 'doc' directory.
>
> Not sure where the problem might be; perhaps a shell that has a very
> low limitation in terms of the argument list size.

That is usually a system limitation, not a shell limit.

> The command line from your transcript doesn't look all that long!

The limit also includes the size of the environment.

Andreas.

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