Re: make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:52:59AM -0800, David Boyce wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > Well, ideally I'd like to find a solution that doesn't require all the > > users to install a newer make. But I'll do some more diagnosis and see > > what I find. With 3.8.1, it's

Re: make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-08 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > Well, ideally I'd like to find a solution that doesn't require all the > users to install a newer make. But I'll do some more diagnosis and see > what I find. Yes. If it's a fixed bug then a little binary searching or a walk through the Changes

Re: make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi David, On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:13:18AM -0800, David Boyce wrote: > > You don't mention a platform so I will assume Linux. Ah, sorry; the log was from OS X, but I had the same problem on Linux/amd64. > GNU make 3.81 dates from 2006, and 3.82 was released in 2010. That's a lot > of bugfixe

Re: make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-08 Thread David Boyce
Ian, You don't mention a platform so I will assume Linux. GNU make 3.81 dates from 2006, and 3.82 was released in 2010. That's a lot of bugfixes, so the first thing is to try at least 3.82 and ideally the CVS version which has ~3 more years of fixes. Building the CVS versions is not hard if you h

make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-07 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, I've got a makefile for a large project which appears to send make into an infinite loop. I wonder if anyone could help me work out what is going wrong, and how to fix it, please? Unfortunately, it does so after about 30mins of compiling with parallel make (using e.g. -j5), and making a