How to extend environment size in AIX 5.2 ?

[colmmagoo]

Hi,

I'm encountering a problem while trying to build some freeware on AIX 5.2:

$ make
set -e; for i in antlr lib do \
echo ============================= ; \
echo Making $i ... ; \
echo ============================= ; \
make -C $i; \
done
make: execvp: /bin/sh: The parameter or environment lists are too long.
make: *** [subdirs] Error 127

My understanding is that the command line size is too big, or one of the environment variables that it needs to use is too big.

Is the commandline size shared with the environment on AIX ? Anyone know how to increase the size of the environment on AIX ? (in linux it's compiled in with the kernel).

Would increasing ulimits help alleviate this problem ?

Thanks for any clues!
Colm.

 

[kierong]

Take a look at smitty ==> System Environments ==> Change / Show Characteristics of the Operating System and look at the last parm ARG/ENV List size. Hit F1 and read the help for this parm


Hope this helps