Recurring calls eat up memory

[Andres Chavarria]

Dear libtool developers,

I installed yesterday OpenSuSE 11.1 and tried to use KDevelop (3.5.3  openSuSE) to create and compile a simple project. When KDevelop calls libtool to link the program, the computer begins to slow down due to massive memory consumption until it does not react anymore.

I tracked down the problem to the script "libtool" found in the projects "debug" or "optimized" directories, which I guess is produced by libtool. It seems that the script calls itself recurringly and produces more and more processes.

pstree delivers:

-konsole-+-bash---sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                          `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                    `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                              `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                                        `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                                                  `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                                                            `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                                                                      `-sh---sh-+-sed
     |          |         |                                                                                                `-sh---s+ and so on


There seems to be a problem with case sensitivity in the script with the "echo" program definition. Changing the script solved the problem:

instead of defining the "echo" as follows:

# An echo program that protects backslashes.
ECHO="printf %s\\n"

I used:

# An echo program that protects backslashes.
echo="printf %s\\n"

Greetings,

Andrés




System:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
openSuSE 11.1 64-Bits with 2.6.27.7-9-default kernel

KDevelop:
Qt: 3.3.8b
KDE: 3.5.10 "release 21.11"
KDevelop: 3.5.3


autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Tested libtool versions: 2.2.6a and 2.2.7a
libtool (GNU libtool 1.3051 2008-12-19) 2.2.7a

sh-version:
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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