make dep not working on HP-UX

I have had a similar problem on our production HP-UX systems. Running ls * on a directory with a lot of files gives
ksh: /usr/bin/ls: arg list too long

To solve this problem you need to set the HP-UX kernel parameter large_ncargs_enabled 1
and rebuild the HP-UX kernel.

Here is the information from HP Electronic Support Center:

Problem Description

What is the impact of changing the kernel parameter "large_ncargs_enabled" from 0 to 1?

What is the meaning of this parameter?

Configuration Info

Operating System - HPUX
Version-
Hardware System - HP 9000
Series -

Solution
When large_ncargs_enabled is set to "1", it increases the default "environment size" (the memory set aside to be your login environment - to hold your PATH variable, etc.) from 20478 to 2048000. SAM doesn't have any info about this parm or any max/minvalue.

If you have been having trouble using an "rm *" on really big directories (it was running out of environment space), the command will work when you set it to 1. Regarding system performance, it will eat up extra memory (2 M vs. 20 K), but if you don't have too many users and you have plenty of RAM, it shouldn't be a problem.

Ulrich
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Ulrich Strelow
<[email protected] or
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Berlin, Germany

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