Bug 48765 – make 3.80 known bug - "*** virtual memory exhausted"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:00:57 UTC]

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 Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:04:00 UTC]

Created attachment 29875 [details, diff]
patch to fix 'virtual memory exchausted'

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

[Comment 2 Natanael Copa 2004-04-23 01:13:41 UTC]

Created attachment 29876 [details, diff]
patch for the ebuild

[Comment 3 Jordi Vilalta 2004-07-03 16:15:38 UTC]

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 SpanKY 2004-10-09 20:57:30 UTC]

3.80-r1 resolves this, sorry for the delay