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

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 bugfixes,

Re: make goes into an infinite loop

2013-01-08 Thread David Boyce
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li 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

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 ig...@earth.li 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