[comp.unix.xenix] SCO Xenix Make Errors

steve@jack.sns.com (J. Steven Harrison) (11/26/89)

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.

I am in the process of bringing up Smail3 on this Xenix box (2.1.3)
and I have run into another stumbling block!  I know I'll get more answers
here than from SCO.

I hope someone out there has seen this and has a cure but.........

In case..... Has anyone out there brought up GNUMake on SCO Xenix.

I have had no problems with Smail now on numerous boxes (and probably
wouldn't here if my tools hadn't bit me!) and I love the new
version but I need to get it running on Xenix also.

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

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timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) (11/27/89)

<1618@jack.sns.com> steve@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... :-)

>-- 
>Dr. J. Steven Harrison                      Systems'n'Software
>(415) 623-8651                              45034 Imnaha Court
>UUCP: steve@jack.SNS.COM                    Fremont, California  94539-6669
>INTERNET: steve%jack.SNS.COM@uunet          MCI MAIL: 401-3501

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