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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:36:19 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
CC:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit

Adding Mr. Corbet.

On 01/26/15 02:31, Michal Marek wrote:
> Use find + xargs to compress the generated manpages. Without this patch,
> the build can fail with
> 
>     gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9
>     /bin/bash: /usr/bin/gzip: Argument list too long
> 
> This happened with qemu user mode emulation on aarch64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
> ---
>  Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> index 9c7d92d..b6a6a2e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ htmldocs: $(HTML)
>  
>  MAN := $(patsubst %.xml, %.9, $(BOOKS))
>  mandocs: $(MAN)
> -	$(if $(wildcard $(obj)/man/*.9),gzip -f $(obj)/man/*.9)
> +	find $(obj)/man -name '*.9' | xargs gzip -f
>  
>  installmandocs: mandocs
>  	mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man9/
> 


-- 
~Randy
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