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Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI 2/2] built sources: avoid fork bomb in $(BUILT_SO
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: [Automake-NG] [FYI 2/2] built sources: avoid fork bomb in $(BUILT_SOURCES) handling |
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:14:12 +0200 |
Le 19 sept. 2012 à 21:49, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :
> Well, if the user calls "make all" in the recipe for a $(BUILT_SOURCES),
> he will still experience a fork bomb, even after this patch -- but that
> is the case also for mainline Automake, so no regression here. On the
> other hand, before this patch, the Automake-NG implementation would
> have caused a fork bomb should *any* recursive make call be issued in
> a recipe for a $(BUILT_SOURCES), even if such call entailed no infinite
> recursion by itself -- that was a regression, one that hit a real-world
> package like GNU Smalltalk, and which my patch has fixed. Does this
> clarify the matter?
Crystal clear now, thanks.