We have run into a bug with GNU make 3.78.1 where it fails an assertion trying to parse a particular Makefile. As suggested, we have reduced the makefile to the smallest one possible that still exhibits the bug. That makefile is attached. The expected output (as per make 3.77) is: make: Nothing to be done for `foo.o'. But the output from 3.78.1 is: make: read.c:892: read_makefile: Assertion `*p2 != '\0'' failed. Aborted (core dumped) It is important not to edit the makefile in Emacs, because the problem appears to be partially caused by an escaped space at the end of the line with the OBJS assignment. Emacs removes the space when it saves the modified file, causing the makefile to work correctly. This bug has been replicated on 2 machines, and make on both machines is the stock version supplied in Red Hat Linux 6.2 (3.78.1 compiled i386-redhat-linux-gnu). If you need any more information configuration-wise, feel free to contact me. Evan Deaubl Software Engineer NewMonics, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OBJS := foo.o \ $(OBJS) :
