Problem with 'sh' while archiving libc_pic.a

["Koundinya.K" <kk at ddeorg dot soft dot net>]

Hi,
  I have been working on the port of glibc (CVS snapshot) to my MIPS R4400 
based machine running SVR4.2. After a couple of hacks and other twists and 
turns the compilation progresses smoothly until the point where libc_pic.a 
is being generated where things fails citing the following problem:

------------ Clip from the build log --------------------------------------

cd /gnu/glibc/build-libc && /opt/devtools/mips-dde-sysv4.2MP/bin/ar cruv 
libc_pi
c.a `cat csu/stamp.os assert/stamp.os ctype/stamp.os locale/stamp.os 
intl/stamp.
os catgets/stamp.os math/stamp.os setjmp/stamp.os signal/stamp.os 
stdlib/stamp.o
s stdio-common/stamp.os stdio/stamp.os dlfcn/stamp.os malloc/stamp.os 
string/sta
mp.os wcsmbs/stamp.os time/stamp.os dirent/stamp.os grp/stamp.os 
pwd/stamp.os po
six/stamp.os io/stamp.os termios/stamp.os resource/stamp.os misc/stamp.os 
socket
/stamp.os sysvipc/stamp.os gmon/stamp.os gnulib/stamp.os iconv/stamp.os 
iconvdat
a/stamp.os wctype/stamp.os manual/stamp.os shadow/stamp.os po/stamp.os 
argp/stam
p.os crypt/stamp.os nss/stamp.os localedata/stamp.os timezone/stamp.os 
rt/stamp.
os debug/stamp.os login/stamp.os elf/stamp.os stamp.os`
/bin/sh: /opt/devtools/mips-dde-sysv4.2MP/bin/ar: Arg list too long
make[2]: *** [/gnu/glibc/build-libc/libc_pic.a] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/gnu/glibc/libc/elf'
make[1]: *** [elf/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/gnu/glibc/libc'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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I suspected that this problem could be with 'sh'. On my system 'sh' is 'bash'
like linux systems. using the native 'sh' also did not solve the problem. I 
tried to look into sources of ar. But got no hints in that too. I am able to 
selectively archive the files.

Have anyone faced any such problem ?. Is thre any other workaround ??

Any sort of help will be appreciated.

Thanks and regards

koundinya