-----Original Message----- From: Philip Guenther [mailto:guent...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 July 2009 20:53 To: glenn.coo...@gmail.com Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: Segmentation fault in make-3.81
> Is there some reason that you didn't use the solution that works in every > version of make that has ever been written and instead used a complex > solution that only has a chance of working in the most recent versions of a > single make implementation? > > %_struct.h: %_struct.def > ifdef VERBOSE > CHIPNAME=`echo $* | tr a-z A-Z` ; \ > $(REGCONV) -chipname $$CHIPNAME $< -simout $@ > else > @CHIPNAME=`echo $* | tr a-z A-Z` ; \ > echo Creating regconv header file CHIPNAME=$$CHIPNAME: $(notdir $@) ; \ > $(REGCONV) -chipname $$CHIPNAME $< -simout $@ > endif You're quite right and your solution above is indeed the sensible way to write it :-) However, I'd just been reading about the new features added in make 3.81 and was experimenting. Still, having make throw a segmentation fault is bad so I figured it was worth reporting the issue so that the problem could be fixed. After all, the next person to run into the same bug might not be using such a simple makefile with easy alternatives. -- Glenn
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