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    > building emacs on macos 10.1 gives the following error:
    > 
    > rm -f /Users/immanuel/workspace/UnixSource/Emacs/emacs-cvs/emacs/lisp/*.elc /Users/immanuel/workspace/UnixSource/Emacs/emacs-cvs/emacs/lisp/*/*.elc
    > /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/rm: Argument list too long
    > make[1]: [bootstrap-clean] Error 126 (ignored)

Maybe we can do something to shorten these names by changing the
makefile so that it uses relative names instead of making them
absolute.

Does this fix the whole problem?

*** Makefile.in.~1.34.~	Thu Mar 28 12:58:44 2002
--- Makefile.in	Tue Sep 17 17:59:39 2002
***************
*** 278,284 ****
  
  bootstrap-clean:
  	if test -x $(EMACS); then $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) autoloads; fi
! 	-rm -f $(lisp)/*.elc $(lisp)/*/*.elc
  
  # Generate/update files for the bootstrap process.
  
--- 278,284 ----
  
  bootstrap-clean:
  	if test -x $(EMACS); then $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) autoloads; fi
! 	cd $(lisp); rm -f *.elc */*.elc
  
  # Generate/update files for the bootstrap process.