Increasing ncargs on 4.0.5

[LarBob]

I'm currently working on compiling GCC 3.0.4 on my Indigo, and the default value of ncargs is too small at a certain point during the process. I messed around a bit and was able to figure out how to increase it (4.0.5 has no `systune`).

Line 256 of `/usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel` should be

#define SYSNCARGS       (10*1024)       /* wastes stack space if too large */

by default. I changed `10*1024` to `50*1024` and that worked successfully.

After you make this change, run `autoconfig` to generate a new kernel. Once you reboot, the new ncargs value should be in effect.

 

[massiverobot]

Funny, how those older UNIXes had to handle that. This is just like digialUnix or even Tru64.

 

[onre]

AFAIK it isn't any different now either, the default is just way larger. Looks like the Linux on my laptop could execute a command line of ~2 megabytes.