[bug #40159] Premature exit with incorrect error message, or garbage output characters.

[Paul D. Smith]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #40159 (project make):

I'm not able to reproduce this bug with any of 3.81, 3.82, or the current
release candidate for the next stable release.  So, either the problem is
fragile enough that it's not reproducible on my system, or else the Debian
version of this package has some patches applied which are changing the
behavior of GNU make enough that I don't see it.  I don't have access to the
Debian version of GNU make.

Testing a different version is quite trivial; just build it:


wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.82.tar.gz
tar xzf make-3.82.tar.gz
cd make-3.82
./configure
make


You do _not_ need to install this version of make.  Just leave it there in
that directory.  There's no installation needed for make.

Now run .../make-3.82/make (use the full pathname to the new make you built)
and see if you still have the problem.

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