usr.bin/make Bug?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jan 20 05:25:04 PST 2005


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:30:40PM -0800, Max Okumoto wrote:
> In the process I found out that it the last patch by joerg and
> asmodai may not be correct.  Make was doing the right thing.
> The problem is we are running out of argv+env space again.
> The patch removed the propigation of the MAKEFLAGS variable
> through the envionment.  So it did not get mangled when we
> ran out of space.

The patch doesn't fix all problems, but it still helps. The problem
is that make doesn't unquote MAKEFLAGS at all, which breaks it horrible.

Joerg

> 
> 				Max





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