I just tried building Emacs from CVS on my debian sid partition. I don't have a 'lispintro' directory, so the "(cd lispintro; make info)" command failed to cd, but then ran 'make info' anyway. As for why this lead to an infinite recursion I don't know, but here's the relevant part of the terminal output:
mkdir /usr/local/man mkdir /usr/local/man/man1 (cd man; make info) make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs/man' cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force gnus.texi cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force pgg.texi cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force mh-e.texi cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force faq.texi cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force -D emacs tramp.texi cd /home/chris/programs/emacs/man; makeinfo --force flymake.texi make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs/man' (cd lispref; make info) make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs/lispref' makeinfo --force -I. -I/home/chris/programs/emacs/lispref /home/chris/programs/emacs/lispref/elisp.texi -o /home/chris/programs/emacs/lispref/../info/elisp make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs/lispref' (cd lispintro; make info) /bin/sh: line 0: cd: lispintro: No such file or directory make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs' (cd man; make -w info) /bin/sh: line 0: cd: man: No such file or directory make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs' (cd man; make -w info) /bin/sh: line 0: cd: man: No such file or directory make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs' (cd man; make -w info) /bin/sh: line 0: cd: man: No such file or directory make[4]: Entering directory `/mnt/breezy/home/chris/programs/emacs' (cd man; make -w info) /bin/sh: line 0: cd: man: No such file or directory [...] This kept going until I had around 600 make processes and the system ground to a halt. Chris. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
