Problem building glibc

[Michael Eager]

I'm running into an odd problem building glibc.

I'm building glibc as simply as possible:
   $ cd /local/work/fsf-head/build/glibc
   $ ../../src/glibc/configure --prefix=/local/work/fsf-head/install/
   $ make

The make never finishes.  It enters sub-directories string
and runs make, then exits, runs make in other sub-dirs, then
re-enters sub-dir string, runs make, and then repeats this
until killed.

On the first entry into sub-dir string, all of the .o
files are built.  On the second and subsequent entries,
no object files are rebuilt, but limits.h is installed in
the install directory and locale-defines.h is written
in the build directory.

This is happening with top-of-tree builds of binutils
and gcc, using make-3.81.  I cannot reproduce this on
another system with gcc-4.7.2 and make-3.82.

I've attached a piece of the make log showing what
is happening when sub-dir string is entered the second
time.  Any suggestions are appreciated.

-- 
Michael Eager	 eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077
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