Re: Fwd: Issue with recursive includes, resource limits, and make-3.81?

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:22 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Trying out a recursive include, I seem to have run into a resource  
> issue:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/scratch/ltp-full-20080430/tools/apicmds
> ../Makefile.inc:4: ../Makefile.inc: Too many open files
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
> 
> Running FC8 with a self-rolled copy of make-3.81. No patches or  
> functional changes apart from a few debug lines.
> 
> What sections of the make code (i.e. which parts in read.c?) should I  
> look into for solving this issue / finding "leaky filehandles", or is  
> this a known issue?

This looks like a bug in your makefile, where you're including the same
file recursively, forever.  I expect if you run with -d you'll see this.