This was noticed when configuring curl:
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/9843
Curl's lib/Makefile might grow to fill all the available disk space on
some Linux systems (observed on Debian 11).
On my Arch Linux system, the Makefile fortunately stays at around 14MB.
Curl developer's comment in the GitHub issue on the number of
repetitions in my Makefile: "The 628 number is curious. It seems to be
the number of lib source files times two!"
I bisected the problem to
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=08849db866b44510f6b8fd49e313c91a43a3dfd3
deps: fix corner-case "make distclean" bug
Repro steps:
On automake's side:
$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/amdev && make && make install
On curl's side (the configure options are from LibreOffice where this
was originally observed):
$ am=/tmp/amdev
$ env PERL5LIB=$am/lib AUTOMAKE="$am/bin/automake"
ACLOCAL="$am/bin/aclocal" autoreconf -fi
$ ./configure \
--without-gnutls --without-mbedtls \
--enable-ftp --enable-http --enable-ipv6 \
--without-libidn2 --without-libpsl --without-librtmp \
--without-libssh2 --without-nghttp2 \
--without-libssh --without-brotli \
--without-ngtcp2 --without-quiche \
--without-zstd --without-hyper --without-libgsasl --without-gssapi \
--disable-mqtt --disable-ares \
--disable-dict --disable-file --disable-gopher --disable-imap \
--disable-ldap --disable-ldaps --disable-manual --disable-pop3 \
--disable-rtsp --disable-smb --disable-smtp --disable-telnet \
--disable-tftp \
--with-nss --with-nss-deprecated \
--with-openssl \
--without-ca-bundle --without-ca-path
Regards,
Ilmari Lauhakangas