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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709221319440.15712@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:24:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: sam@...nborg.org, zippel@...ux-m68k.org
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Unfortunate infinite make recursion
Hi,
You can cause a recursion in kbuild/make with the following:
make O=$PWD kernel/time.o
make mrproper
Of course no one would use O=$PWD (that's just the testcase),
but this happened too often:
/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23$ make O=/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23 kernel/time.o
(Oops - should have been O=/ws/linux/obj-2.6.23!)
The make O=$PWD truncates the Makefile, making it necessary to run `git
checkout Makefile` - should you have git; or reextract the tarball
(should you /still/ have it). Well, can we catch this case somehow?
thanks,
Jan
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