[vtk-developers] RE: unable to load packages

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 7/8/2002 10:24 AM, Volpe, Christopher R (Research) wrote:
>Hi folks-
>   Problem solved. It was a windows limitation on the environment variable 
> size.

Yep, this one is usually annoying to detect.

Anyway, note that:

>
>         To increase the amount of environment space, use the following 
> syntax:
>         ComSpec = <drive:\windir>\system32\cmd.exe /e:2048

will probably raise an issue inside NT Emacs 20.x. The default installation 
use cmdproxy.exe as sub-shell inside Emacs, and cmdproxy.exe will fail 
since it tries to run ComSpec directly (i.e. execute "cmd.exe /e:2048"). I 
guess you can override that by setting SHELL, or by leaving ComSpec as is 
and provide an arg like:
       (defconst  explicit-cmdproxy.exe-args `("/e:32768")


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Sebastien Barre