Description of problem: Top level Makefile uses backticks (`) (around line 527): dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep include/linux/version.h scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend scripts/mkdep -- `find $(FINDHPATH) \( -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print` > .hdepend This causes bash to complain about overly large command line. Piping the same find command to wc shows > 130000 bytes. Replacing makefile fragment with dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep include/linux/version.h scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend scripts/mkdep -- $(find $(FINDHPATH) \( -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print) > .hdepend solves the problem. I was able to continue compiling with no errors. I did not check all kernel packages but it probably applies to all releases.
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