Bug 1386809

Summary: re-exec'ed make runs recipes with maximum RLIMIT_STACK, please apply upstream fix
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman>
Component: makeAssignee: Patsy Griffin <pfrankli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stephan Bergmann 2016-10-19 16:25:40 UTC 
> $ ulimit -Ss
> 8192
> 
> $ ulimit -Hs
> unlimited
> 
> $ cat Makefile
> .PHONY: all restart
> 
> all:
> 	ulimit -s
> 
> ifeq ($(MAKE_RESTARTS),)
> Makefile: restart
> 	touch $@
> endif
> 
> $ make
> touch Makefile
> ulimit -s
> unlimited

(This plagues me in LibreOffice development, where make routinely restarts that way, some recipe calls gdb to generate a core backtrace, and gdb runs into infinite recursion on main thread due to <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61460#c1> "Demangler crash (GDB PR 17043)", causing its stack to grow beyond limit and the machine to crawl to a halt.)

There is a fix upstream, <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=a3d8c086d54c112fecfa2b9026a32a14f741f5f5> "* main.c (main): [SV 48009] Reset stack limit for make re-exec.", would be great if that could be backported to F24.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2017-02-17 02:35:42 UTC 
make-4.1-6.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-25dba3501a
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2017-04-13 23:50:38 UTC 
make-4.1-6.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.