xargs generates too long argument lists on i686

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> For some time now, each time I try to build an RPM it fails with something
> like:
>
>  + /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
>    xargs: /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths-worker: Argument list too long
>    error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.39544 (%install)
>
> This I have traced back to xargs(1) generating huge argument lists, which
> the called command can't handle. Doing a "make clean" in a self-built
> kernel gives the same type of grief (I tweaked the Makefile there to call
> xargs with "-L 2000" to get it to work).
>
> I wonder how everybody else here is able to get anything done...

Easy workaround: just remove the rpath check from ~/.rpmmacros 
(rpmdev-setuptree plants it there, it's not part of default rpm build 
setup otherwise).

 	- Panu -