make 3.78.1: failed assertion at read.c:892

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi there,

running Solaris 2.6 (SunOS5.6), I'm getting a reproducible error in
GNU make:

--snip--
address@hidden:/tmp/uk/mp/mad-0.13.0b/winamp-test > make
read.c:892: failed assertion `*p2 != '\0''
Abort
address@hidden:/tmp/uk/mp/mad-0.13.0b/winamp-test > make --version
GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.6
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.


--snip--

I guess line 892 is well known to you, I don't have to quote it. ;-)
The Makefile doing this is produced by autoconf. It's in the project
"mad" (mad-0.13.0b) in the subdir "winamp". I've attached my Makefile
to this email. I'm not about to fetch a newer version of make right now
:) (I've worked around it using SunOS's make), but just wanted to let
you know, in case nobody's noticed yet.

A "truss" (similar to strace) output of the "make" call is also
attached.

Another thing: How about a string indicating that this error is from
"make"? I was looking for problems with gcc or the mad source, not
knowing that "make" was failing. E.g.
make: read.c:892: failed assertion *p2 != '\0''
instead of
read.c:892: failed assertion *p2 != '\0''
.

Thanks for listening and a great (vital!) tool,
Moritz

make-3.78.1-Makefile-errors
Description: Makefile from mad-0.13.0b

make.truss
Description: truss output from make