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
Created attachment 29875 [details, diff] patch to fix 'virtual memory exchausted' found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197886
Created attachment 29876 [details, diff] patch for the ebuild
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.
3.80-r1 resolves this, sorry for the delay