/usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long during make distclean in cross chroot

[David Cullen]

I am building the Linux kernel in a cross chroot environment.
When I run "make distclean", the following messages are emitted:

[user@host:/home/work/linux]: make distclean
/usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long
make: *** [clean] Error 126

I create the cross chroot environment by making a copy of the root
file system from an ARM system. I copy qemu-arm-static to /usr/bin
and then chroot into the root file system.

If I modify the make file to pass "-s 122880" to xargs, it fixes
the problem.

I have filed a bug report on xargs:

    http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37093

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tom Rini (tom-rini)]

I see this with Ubuntu 12.04 inside of an armhf chroot. Running 'make deb-pkg' also exposes this issue

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Riku Voipio (riku-voipio)]

This was fixed in qemu 2.5 with commit of subject: linux-user: remove MAX_ARG_PAGES limit