Make command giving error recursive macro

[Rajesh Karelia]

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.

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[Rajesh Karelia]

I am attaching my makefile.uds

[OldSchool]

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

[Rajesh Karelia]

I am including all the files included.

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[Rajesh Karelia]

Hi Peter,

I have actually commented that out from the files.

[Rajesh Karelia]

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.

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[Rajesh Karelia]

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

[Peter Nikitka]

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