Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Makefiles and rebooting Message-ID: Date: 4 Aug 88 23:34:25 GMT References: <25414@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 In article <25414@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> rbrown@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Brown) writes: [ Basically, a Makefile under Manx's Make is causing a Guru ] I have found that Manx forgot to turn on stack checking when creating the Make program (an assumption... doesn't everyone ship code with such checking on? :-) because certain recursive definitions in the makefile will cause it to Guru due to a stack overflow. Now I always check for things like that when importing foreign makefiles. Tom -- Tom Limoncelli Currently using crutches and in great pain, but still available at: limonce@pilot.njin.net "Remember all the great times we had?" tlimonce@drew.bitnet "Yeah... was that *you*?" tlimonce%drew@cunyvm.cuny.edu "The opinions expressed above are mine... just mine." (Hey Eric! Remember when I was so proud to finally be on a net and your reply was, "Bitnet? Ok... tell me when you get on a real net"? Well, look at the new signature! A real net! Right on the internet! See! See! It's also reachable via limonce@njin.rutgers.edu. Ok Eric? )