SCO Xenix Make Errors

[Tim Kuehn]

<1618 at jack.sns.com> steve at jack.SNS.COM.UUCP (J. Steven Harrison) writes:
>All in Net Land!
>
>Help!
>
>Have any of you out there ever been so luck as to receive the following
>error message from SCO Xenix make?
>
>	Make: Cannot allocate memory.  Stop.

In the Programmer's Guide I (under 'Make' :-)) there is described a facility 
for getting Make to tell you *exactly* what's going on by using the '-d'switch. Using this switch will have Make spew all kinds of arcane stuff back 
at you and leave you at the line Make is trying to execute when it bombed. 

I ran into a problem similar to the one you describe and it turned out to 
be a environment variable that was being set to too long a string. Breaking 
it up into two parts and inserting the pair instead of the one solved the 
problem. 

>Comments????????  (I'm open for flames!)

Mild flame enclosed above... :-)

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