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RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:21:53 +0100
- Subject: RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop
----Original Message----
>From: Christian Matuszewski
>Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42
> Hi,
>
> if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk at the prompt:
> $ *
> then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could expect a message like:
> "bash: *: command not found".
>
> But when i execute the following Makefile:
> foo:
> *
>
> make will print the following lines to stderr:
> PROJECT_NAME: not found
> PROJECT_NUMBER: not found
> OUTPUT_DIRECTORY: not found
> CREATE_SUBDIRS: not found
> OUTPUT_LANGUAGE: not found
> USE_WINDOWS_ENCODING: not found
> BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC: not found
> REPEAT_BRIEF: not found
> ABBREVIATE_BRIEF: not found
> ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC: not found
> INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB: not found
> FULL_PATH_NAMES: not found
> STRIP_FROM_PATH: not found
> STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH: not found
> SHORT_NAMES: not found
> JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF: not found
> MULTILINE_CPP_IS_BRIEF: not found
> DETAILS_AT_TOP: not found
> INHERIT_DOCS: not found
> DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC: not found
> SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES: not found
> TAB_SIZE: not found
> ALIASES: not found
> OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C: not found
> OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA: not found
> SUBGROUPING: not found
> EXTRACT_ALL: not found
> EXTRACT_PRIVATE: not found
> EXTRACT_STATIC: not found
> EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES: not found
> EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS: not found
> HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS: not found
> HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES: not found
> HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS: not found
> HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS: not found
> INTERNAL_DOCS: not found
> CASE_SENSE_NAMES: not found
> HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES: not found
> SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES: not found
> INLINE_INFO: not found
> SORT_MEMBER_DOCS: not found
> SORT_BRIEF_DOCS: not found
> SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME: not found
> GENERATE_TODOLIST: not found
> GENERATE_TESTLIST: not found
> GENERATE_BUGLIST: not found
>
> and then make stays in an endless loop which prints lines
> y
> y
> y
> ...
> to stdout
>
> When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk in the command
> line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' will give the same
> messages and ends in an endless loop.
WDDTT!
cheers,
DaveK
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