[3726] in Athena Bugs
Caveat for developers using LONG afs path names.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Nov 27 16:22:13 1989
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 16:20:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: staff@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Last week I had a build blow out with the error message:
Word too long.
I solved the problem by changing references to my files in my build tree
from:
/afs/athena/astaff/project/a-andy-r4
to
/mit/andydevo
----
This problem occured on the VAX but not on the RT. I think it is a
problem either with tcsh or make or ld. But I didn't want to further
isolate the problem. Chances are a fix to this problem would be to
change some magic constant in one of the programs. It seemed to me the
best fix was to warn people what:
Word too long.
meant, until some clever sould finds this bad error message and makes it
reasonable.
-wdc
