I see this with Ubuntu 12.04 inside of an armhf chroot. Running 'make deb-pkg' also exposes this issue
** Project changed: qemu => qemu-linaro (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036645 Title: /usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long during make distclean in cross chroot Status in “qemu-linaro” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am building the Linux kernel in a cross chroot environment. When I run "make distclean", the following messages are emitted: [user@host:/home/work/linux]: make distclean /usr/bin/xargs: rm: Argument list too long make: *** [clean] Error 126 I create the cross chroot environment by making a copy of the root file system from an ARM system. I copy qemu-arm-static to /usr/bin and then chroot into the root file system. If I modify the make file to pass "-s 122880" to xargs, it fixes the problem. I have filed a bug report on xargs: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37093 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-linaro/+bug/1036645/+subscriptions
