Hi all,
> I have to admit to having seen no discussion about this prior to
> this email. However, one obvious fix presents itself to my eyes:
> Insert "--max-lines=1000" between "xargs" and "rm" in the
> relevant command line(s).
Hmm... xargs -s <max rm command-line size> is probably more portable, as
--max-lines requires GNU xargs, which makes building Linux on another platform
a bit harder (i.e. when 1st porting, or for Mastodon :-)
Yet another patch (should have looked at the xargs man page before sending the
previous patch. Oh well :-)
--- Makefile.old Sun Mar 12 13:12:42 2000
+++ Makefile Sun Mar 12 13:12:33 2000
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
clean: archclean
rm -f kernel/ksyms.lst include/linux/compile.h
- find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f
+ find . -name '*.[oas]' -type f -print | grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs -s 131072 rm -f
rm -f core `find . -type f -name 'core' -print`
rm -f core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
rm -f vmlinux System.map
-- DN
Daniel
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