[Fwd: Too many args during make dist...]

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:

Anthony> I've had to strip the doc files out of the xalan tarball
Anthony> because "make dist" can't handle the number of files (~2800)
Anthony> in this package.  The shell is complaining about too many
Anthony> arguments on the command line.  Is there a common
Anthony> work-around?

I don't know of one :-(.
Unfortunately you are the first person to hit this particular bug.
I agree it is a real problem, but I'm not certain what we can do about
it.

Tom