🚀 go-pugleaf

Gnu make version make-3.62.

On HP700s (untested on other machines)

When I tried to invoke gmake with a Makefile that has a rule of the
form:

> target: $(SOME_MAKE_VARIABLE)

For some reason this triggers a call to glob() with the pattern
parameter "/".  When glob is called with this pattern, an
infinite loop results as glob calls itself with the same pattern.

The parsing of pattern into filename and dirname results in
filename = "", and dirname = "/", and then this code is reached:

>  if (filename[0] == '\0')
>    /* "pattern/".  Expand "pattern", appending slashes.  */
>    return glob(dirname, flags | GLOB_MARK, errfunc, pglob);


I believe changing this to be:

>  if (filename[0] == '\0' && strcmp(dirname, "/"))

fixes the problem.

It seems that glob/glob.c is shared with other Gnu programs.


Mark Culotta

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