[bug #56918] endless loop under Darwin if recipe is non_existent_program

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: endless loop under Darwin if recipe is
non_existent_program
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 18 Sep 2019 08:25:19 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: SCM
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

With this Makefile on my Darwin system (MacOS Mojave 18.7.0), make-4.2.91
loops indefinitely and i have to kill -9 (kill -15 is not enough):

% cat Makefile
target:
        echo anything
        non_existent_program
% make
anything
non_existent_program
make: non_existent_program: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile;3: target] Error 127
Killed
%

This is also the case with make-4.2.90 but not with make-4.2.1.
Commenting out the line "echo anything" has the same effect (endless loop),
but completely removing this line makes the hang disappear (and 'make' to work
correctly).
Using --disable-posix-spawn also makes the hang disappear in all situations
(it seems).

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.





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