From: Jo-Philipp Wich Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:37:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: generic: fix occasional "execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long" is kernel header... X-Git-Tag: reboot~8451 X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21ee73c9205c9dda5d379c8681804beec238ae82;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fnoltari.git generic: fix occasional "execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long" is kernel header install phase (#12907) Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich SVN-Revision: 38998 --- diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.10/205-fix-headers_install.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.10/205-fix-headers_install.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6914c218ec --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.10/205-fix-headers_install.patch @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +From e60cc1b011bf0f1acdb7e5168b7bed4ebb78c91f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Bruce Ashfield +Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:24:39 -0500 +Subject: [PATCH] scripts/Makefile.headersinst: install headers from scratch file + +If headers_install is executed from a deep/long directory structure, the +shell's maximum argument length can be execeeded, which breaks the operation +with: + +| make[2]: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long +| make[2]: *** + +By dumping the input files to a scratch file and using xargs to read the +input list from the scratch file, we can avoid blowing out the maximum +argument size and install headers in a long path name environment. + +Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield +[jow@openwrt.org: adapt to Linux 3.10] +Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich +--- + scripts/Makefile.headersinst | 4 +++- + 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) + +--- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst ++++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst +@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ printdir = $(patsubst $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH + quiet_cmd_install = INSTALL $(printdir) ($(words $(all-files))\ + file$(if $(word 2, $(all-files)),s)) + cmd_install = \ +- $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(installdir) $(input-files); \ ++ xargs $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(installdir) < $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/.input-files; \ + for F in $(wrapper-files); do \ + echo "\#include " > $(installdir)/$$F; \ + done; \ +@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@ targets += $(install-file) + $(install-file): scripts/headers_install.sh $(input-files) FORCE + $(if $(unwanted),$(call cmd,remove),) + $(if $(wildcard $(dir $@)),,$(shell mkdir -p $(dir $@))) ++ @echo $(input-files) > $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/.input-files + $(call if_changed,install) ++ @rm $(INSTALL_HDR_PATH)/.input-files + + else + __headerscheck: $(subdirs) $(check-file)