> From: "William Sheehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:52:00 -0700
>
> > Please rune "make check" on the version of Make you think
> > fixes the problem. If all the tests pass, please post here a
> > patch that you used to fix the recursion problem. Thanks.
>
> Done; the pa
> The patch is really not mine, Eli, myself and Chris came up
> with it. And now you. :)
>
> Thanks for finding the problem.
I stand corrected; thanks to all involved!
William Sheehan
Builds Engineer / Network Administrator
Open Interface North America
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At 01:52 PM 8/25/2006, William Sheehan wrote:
>> Please rune "make check" on the version of Make you think
>> fixes the problem. If all the tests pass, please post here a
>> patch that you used to fix the recursion problem. Thanks.
>
>Done; the patch is attached. Running make check came back w
> Please rune "make check" on the version of Make you think
> fixes the problem. If all the tests pass, please post here a
> patch that you used to fix the recursion problem. Thanks.
Done; the patch is attached. Running make check came back with zero
failures and a nice smiley face. The patc
> From: "William Sheehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:57:35 -0700
>
> The basic cause of the problems are the ~ and ! characters defined in
> sh_chars, line 2304 of job.c in the untouched make 3.81 sources. Or rather,
> that a Cygwin build uses sh_chars when (I think) it shoul
> It could be an infinite recursion in
> construct_command_argv_internal, but it could also be
> something else. First, is it reasonable to get a stack
> overflow in a Cygwin program after only 11 recursive
> invocations of construct_command_argv_internal? Can you
> verify directly that the
