Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion

[Bodo Eggert]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can cause a recursion in kbuild/make with the following:
> 
> make O=$PWD kernel/time.o
> make mrproper
> 
> Of course no one would use O=$PWD (that's just the testcase),
> but this happened too often:
> 
> /ws/linux/linux-2.6.23$ make O=/ws/linux/linux-2.6.23 kernel/time.o
> (Oops - should have been O=/ws/linux/obj-2.6.23!)
> 
> The make O=$PWD truncates the Makefile, making it necessary to run `git
> checkout Makefile` - should you have git; or reextract the tarball
> (should you /still/ have it). Well, can we catch this case somehow?

You can test for the existence of MAINTAINERS in the build dir and abort
if it's there.
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