make broken in -current

[Sean McNeil]

On Feb 12, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:21 -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
>> Even though it appears to work just fine on a make buildworld and for
>> most things, make will sit in an infinite loop when I do the 
>> following:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2
>> make distclean
>> make
>>
>> when I cd to the work directory and do a make -d A I get the 
>> following:
>>
>> ...
>> Global:GRAM_H = parser-built
>> Global:.MAKEFILE_LIST = /usr/share/mk/sys.mk /etc/make.conf ..
>> /usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk .. /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk .. .. Makefile
>> ..
>> Searching for .depend...failed.
>> Searching for .depend.../usr/share/mk...failed.
>>
>> and stuck.
>>
>> a bt says it is sitting at /usr/src/usr.bin/make/main.c:821
>>
>> This line looks bad.  cp is incremented but ptr is the determinator.
>>
>> My machine is an amd64, but this code should cause problems for any
>> machine.
>
> I reported this to harti last night.  Attached is my proposed patch.
>

Thanks, Joe.  This is what I did except I used "start" instead of a new 
variable "pptr".  I think that there is another case above that does 
essentially the same thing.  I'm not sure why it wasn't copied but 
instead done differently.

Sean