[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Dorey
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #40159 (project make): I repeated all my tests with both makefiles. In all tests, they behaved like the original. So this is a bug that's been fixed here since 3.82. Debian has taken many patches from here but hasn't taken whichever one fixed this. Can we say which it

RE: make check under Cygwin

2013-10-02 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! > Please take a look at the change I made, it takes care of all those > things at a price of only 5 changed lines. I see. Should work, indeed. I'd say the resulting code is less optimal (repeated conditions, strncpy() with length = 1) and a bit more difficult to understand. But, after al

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #40159 (project make): At the bug page https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?40159 I attached the two example Makefiles https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=29289 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=29290 _

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
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[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
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[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Dorey
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #40159 (project make): Debian's make 3.81-8.2, from Wheezy and Sid, behaves like Squeeze, as does make-3.82 built on Debian via Paul's instructions here. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Dorey
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #40159 (project make): On a version (3.99.92) from Git the other day, the example's output ends with: Makefile:12: i Makefile:12: i make: Nothing to be done for 'dummy'. It exits with status zero. valgrind doesn't notice anything scary. With the make ("3.81-8")

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #40159 (project make): I'm not able to reproduce this bug with any of 3.81, 3.82, or the current release candidate for the next stable release. So, either the problem is fragile enough that it's not reproducible on my system, or else the Debian version of this package ha

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #40159 (project make): Hi Paul. Thanks for responding! I do not have access to 3.82 at this time. 3.81 is the current version in Debian stable. I will be interested to hear if anyone tests my example makefile, on 3.81 or later. Do you see anything like what I reported

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #40159 (project make): In case of any confusion, please make a small typo correction in my bug report. There is a 'y' that should be a 'i'. The correct text is this: More evidence that bad things are happening internally can be seen by trivially changing the variable na

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #40159 (project make): GNU make 3.81 is over 7 years old. Have you been able to reproduce this with the current stable version of GNU make, which is available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.82.tar.gz? Also you might try the current prerelease for the next stable

[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

2013-10-02 Thread padavo
URL: Summary: Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters. Project: make Submitted by: padavo Submitted on: Wed 02 Oct 2013 05:39:01 PM GMT Severity: 3 -

Re: make check under Cygwin

2013-10-02 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Pavel Fedin > Cc: bug-...@denis-excoffier.org, bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:47:15 +0400 > > > There must be a better way, since the only difference between Posix and > Windows file > > names is the X: prefix of every absolute file name. > > Yes. But in certain cases (Cyg