Re: Issue with recursive includes, resource limits, and make-3.81?

[Garrett Cooper]

On May 21, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:22 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> > Trying out a recursive include, I seem to have run into a resource
> > issue:
> >
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/scratch/ltp-full-20080430/tools/apicmds
> > ../Makefile.inc:4: ../Makefile.inc: Too many open files
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
> >
> > Running FC8 with a self-rolled copy of make-3.81. No patches or
> > functional changes apart from a few debug lines.
> >
> > What sections of the make code (i.e. which parts in read.c?) should I
> > look into for solving this issue / finding "leaky filehandles", or is
> > this a known issue?
>
> This looks like a bug in your makefile, where you're including the  
> same
> file recursively, forever.  I expect if you run with -d you'll see  
> this.

You're absolutely right once again -_-... forgot that the a relative  
path isn't established for child makefiles. Fixed.
-Garrett