Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Question about Make
Summary: Are you using ksh?
Message-ID: <927@vsi.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 05:28:50 GMT
References: <322@sdti.UUCP> <203@abhg.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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> > Whenever I try to run 'make' on a makefile that contains nested
> > 'make' commands, I get a core dump.  Has anyone else observed this
> > behavior? 
> 
> I also have this problem.  Another problem I have with make which causes
> a core dump is running make as root.  If I am root, attempting to run
> make always coredumps.  This is V/AT Version 1.3 of the Software Developement.

Hi Folks,

     We had the second problem too, and tracked down to a bug in
make that was triggered by Aspen ksh.  ksh exports the _
environment variable, and when make is looking at the env for
variables, it croaks on the non-alphanum character.

     A short-term fix should be to make a wrapper program that
scans the environment, drops the _ variable, and then calls
the real make.

     This bug, along with the source-code fix, was sent to uport
in early May.

     Steve

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