Hello Jérémy Lal, Thanks for your bug report. The solution might actually be in meson (see below).
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Package: gnome-builder > Version: 3.32.4-2 > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > Hi, > > while trying to build gnome-builder in an up-to-date sid env using sbuild, > i found that error. > > Jérémy > [...] > ninja: fatal: posix_spawn: Argument list too long > dh_auto_build: cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu && LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ninja -j3 -v > returned exit code 1 > make: *** [debian/rules:31: binary] Error 255 > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status > 2 Quoting from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-builder/issues/1057 : "In case you see ninja: fatal: posix_spawn: Argument list too long, apply https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/6030 to fix it. Meson 0.52.0 generates a lot of duplicate arguments and it may exceed the length limit of the kernel." Regards, Andreas Henriksson