Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!visix!andyt
From: andyt@visix.UUCP (Andy Turk)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Bugs in GNU Make
Keywords: GNU Make Bugs
Message-ID: <214@visix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 14:12:19 GMT
Organization: Visix Software, Arlington, Virginia
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I'm using GNU Make 3.54 and I've had a number of problems, most of 
which I've already fixed.  However, the following problem seems to
be pretty deep.

Use of the $(foreach,,) function causes make to either crash
or hang.  When I do this on one of our DEC3100s, the process crashes
due to a protection failure, our Harris HCX7 hangs, and my NeXT machine
hangs up so that I can't even kill the process using csh job control
(I can kill it explicitly via its PID).

For the sake of completeness, here's a rule that will demonstrate the
problem:

test :
	echo $(foreach x,a b c,-$(x)-)

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     Andrew K. Turk                               visix!andyt@uunet.uu.net

          "I don't know what happened to my face." -- Dizzy Gillespie