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Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:17:24 GMT

When I am doing a make on the HP-UX 11.23 I am getting the following error.

$ make -f makefile.uds -k all_make
make -f makefile.uds -k all_make
+ make -f makefile.uds -k all_make
Make: infinitely recursive macro?. Stop.
$

Please provide a solution for the same.

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:45:40 GMT

Hi,

at first sight I guess, that you are calling the make itself recursivly.

Please attach your 'makefile.uds' - solutions are difficult to get without it.

mfG Peter

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:28:58 GMT

I am attaching my makefile.uds

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

OldSchool — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:33:01 GMT

also going to need all of the included files, plus anything they include.....

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:57:31 GMT

I am including all the files included.

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:06:52 GMT

Hi,

in your makefile.uds you include e.g.
makefile.common
makefile.userlock

but makefile.userlock
includes makefile.common

as well. The duplicate include(s) is/are the source of your problem.

mfG Peter

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:22:31 GMT

Hi Peter,

I have actually commented that out from the files.

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:24:27 GMT

Hi Peter,

Sorry for an incomplete answer. I tried it that way too. But the same error came in.

If you have a look at the file, I have put # before it. Thus I have commented out that includes.

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:33:11 GMT

Hi,

a quick test did not show this error message.
The cause may be in the ORACLE-part of the make-includes which was not attached.

mfG Peter

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Peter Nikitka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:42:18 GMT

Hi,

I just saw this line in makefile.common:

CCFLAGS = $(CCFLAGS) -w1

This is at least a not portable but nearly always an illegal construct.

Use
CCFLAGS += -w1
or set this way at all places:
CCFLAGS := ...

mfG Peter

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Rajesh Karelia — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:42:51 GMT

Please suggest a way then to rectify this. I am attaching the oracle include file if that helps.

Re: Make command giving error recursive macro

Peter Nikitka — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:22:12 GMT

Hi,

in your ORACLE-Makefile you find a line
CCFLAGS= $(NOKPIC_CCFLAGS) -DPRECOMP

in your makefile.common you have
CCFLAGS = $(CCFLAGS) -w1

In the real makefile (after the expansion of all include-makefiles) the make command find the pure form of a recursive makro call.
It is not enough to check a single makefile when using includes.

mfG Peter