bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

["Christian Matuszewski" <C dot Matuszewski at gmx dot de>]

Hi,

if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk at the prompt:
$ *
then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could expect a message like:
"bash: *: command not found".

But when i execute the following Makefile:
foo:
    *

make will print the following lines to stderr:
PROJECT_NAME: not found
PROJECT_NUMBER: not found
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY: not found
CREATE_SUBDIRS: not found
OUTPUT_LANGUAGE: not found
USE_WINDOWS_ENCODING: not found
BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC: not found
REPEAT_BRIEF: not found
ABBREVIATE_BRIEF: not found
ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC: not found
INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB: not found
FULL_PATH_NAMES: not found
STRIP_FROM_PATH: not found
STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH: not found
SHORT_NAMES: not found
JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF: not found
MULTILINE_CPP_IS_BRIEF: not found
DETAILS_AT_TOP: not found
INHERIT_DOCS: not found
DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC: not found
SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES: not found
TAB_SIZE: not found
ALIASES: not found
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C: not found
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA: not found
SUBGROUPING: not found
EXTRACT_ALL: not found
EXTRACT_PRIVATE: not found
EXTRACT_STATIC: not found
EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES: not found
EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS: not found
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS: not found
HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES: not found
HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS: not found
HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS: not found
INTERNAL_DOCS: not found
CASE_SENSE_NAMES: not found
HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES: not found
SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES: not found
INLINE_INFO: not found
SORT_MEMBER_DOCS: not found
SORT_BRIEF_DOCS: not found
SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME: not found
GENERATE_TODOLIST: not found
GENERATE_TESTLIST: not found
GENERATE_BUGLIST: not found

and then make stays in an endless loop which prints lines
y
y
y
...
to stdout

When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk in the command
line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' will give the same
messages and ends in an endless loop.


Best regards,

Christian Matuszewski

-- 
Geschenkt: 3 Monate GMX ProMail gratis + 3 Ausgaben stern gratis
++ Jetzt anmelden & testen ++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/promail ++

Attachment: Makefile.bug
Description: Binary data

Attachment: cygcheck.out
Description: Binary data

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/