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Bug#: 48765
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
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Filename Description Type Creator Created Size Actions
make-3.80-virt-mem-exhausted.patch patch to fix 'virtual memory exchausted' patch Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:04 0000 2.20 KB Details | Diff
make-3.80-r1.ebuild.diff patch for the ebuild patch Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:13 0000 363 bytes Details | Diff
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Description:   Opened: 2004-04-23 01:00 0000 
Make 3.80 has a bug casuing a "virtual memory exhausted" message and make
abortion.

strace show that make tries to allocate some negative amount of memory
(~4Gbytes)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Try the following shellscript:
============== 8< ===============
for a in `seq 1 5`; do touch 0123456789012345678901234567890123$a.c; done

cat > Makefile <<'DELIM'
define BUG
SRC := $$(wildcard *.c)
#OBJ := $$(SRC:.c=.o)
OBJ := $$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$$(SRC))

$$(OBJ):%.o:%.c
endef

$(eval $(call BUG))
DELIM

make
============== 8< ===============

Actual Results:  
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.

Expected Results:  
gcc    -c -o 01234567890123456789012345678901231.o
01234567890123456789012345678901231.c


This is a known bug that is fixed in the cvs version of make.
The patch is taken directly from debian.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197886

------- Comment #1 From Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:04:00 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=29875) [edit]
patch to fix 'virtual memory exchausted'

found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197886

------- Comment #2 From Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:13:41 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=29876) [edit]
patch for the ebuild

------- Comment #3 From Jordi Vilalta 2004-07-03 16:15:38 0000 ------- 
This also worked for me. This was very annoying (make didn't work with a
makefile I made, and I didn't find why). This should be put in portage soon.

------- Comment #4 From SpanKY 2004-10-09 20:57:30 0000 ------- 
3.80-r1 resolves this, sorry for the delay
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