On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Satish Balay! > > > I'm seeing the following error from cygwin: > > > "environment is too large for exec" > > > I can try reducing the env - however - is there an option in cygwin to > > increase the current 'max env'? > > As far as I recall, this is an OS limit.
Ah so that can't be changed. Thanks for the info. > Most often this is caused by an overgrown %PATH% variable. Inspect it and > cleanup from stuff unused/unnecessary. There's many ways to make executables > visible without adding them to %PATH%. In this case - it was gitlab-runner setting up an env var with the commit message - this was long. Satish -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
