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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: make -ki considered harmful
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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:15:16 -0700 (PDT)
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be very careful with the flag "i" during a make.
it may crash your machine.

i dont knwo that this is a bug, but rather may be the uninteded result
of having a "i" flag avilable.

Aspen:[208] cd /usr/src/share/sgml
Aspen:[209] ls -Flag
total 8
drwxrwxr-x   4 root  wheel   512 Sep  8 18:02 ./
drwxrwxr-x  17 root  wheel   512 Sep  3 19:13 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel  1786 Sep  8 16:36 CATALOG
drwxrwxr-x   2 root  wheel   512 Sep  8 18:02 CVS/
drwxrwxr-x   3 root  wheel   512 Sep  8 18:02 FreeBSD/
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel   287 Sep  8 18:02 Makefile
-rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel    90 May  9  1995 Makefile.inc
Aspen:[210] make -k clean
===> FreeBSD
===> ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
*** Error code 2 (continuing)
Aspen:[211] make -i clean
===> FreeBSD
===> ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
===> ISO/FreeBSD
===> ISO/ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
===> ISO/ISO/FreeBSD
===> ISO/ISO/ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/FreeBSD
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/FreeBSD
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/FreeBSD
===> ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO/ISO
cd: can't cd to /usr/src/share/sgml/ISO
Aspen:[212] more Makefile
#       $Id: Makefile,v 1.4 1996/09/08 20:36:58 jfieber Exp $
Aspen:[213] head -2 /usr/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk
#       from: @(#)bsd.subdir.mk 5.9 (Berkeley) 2/1/91
#       $Id: bsd.subdir.mk,v 1.10 1996/06/24 21:33:23 jkh Exp $


this will continue until the machines crashes.  you know how i found out! ;)

jmb

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