Bug 55490

Summary:	Make: assert() fails, make dumps core
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Binand Sethumadhavan <binand>
Component:	make	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	florin, redhat-bugzilla, rh-bugzilla
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Description Binand Sethumadhavan 2001-11-01 04:58:25 UTC

This is the only line in a makefile:

a: CFLAGS += -DMAIN

There is a file a.c, which is irrelevant. I used a simple helloworld 
program.

Run make as:

binand@binand[~/testprogs]:(25) make CFLAGS+=-DMAIN a

This is the output:

cc -DMAIN -DMAIN    a.c   -o a
make: expand.c:489: allocated_variable_append: Assertion 
`current_variable_set_list->next != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

Comment 1 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-06-24 06:43:21 UTC

I have had this problem with make-3.79.1-8 included in RedHat 7.3. I ran into
this problem while trying to compile an rpm. I found for whatever reason that if
I compiled it outside of rpm it worked, but always have the error message on a
certain file building a rpm. I did a search and found the url below with a patch
that after modifying so it would apply it fixed the problem. I also had to
modify the make tar.gz file because of ^Ls in the text. The patch could probably
be modified so that it would deal with the ^Ls.

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7907232&list=351

Comment 2 Guy Streeter 2002-07-08 19:07:59 UTC

This still occurs in rawhide make. and I also can't reproduce it outside of
rpmbuild.

Comment 3 Nathan G. Grennan 2002-07-25 15:10:54 UTC

Ran into this problem again while trying to build a xawtv-3.76 rpm. Again I am
building a new version of make with the patch I mentioned before. The problem is
still in make-3.79.1-14. Please fix it.

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2002-12-15 18:05:27 UTC

Confirmed still present in 8.0

touch a.c
make CFLAGS+=-DMAIN a
cc -DMAIN -DMAIN    a.c   -o a
make: expand.c:489: allocated_variable_append: Assertion
`current_variable_set_list->next != 0' failed.
Aborted

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2004-07-28 15:23:53 UTC

*** Bug 88846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jakub Jelinek 2004-10-07 07:45:42 UTC

Can't reproduce this with make-3.80-4.