Bug 76854

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Description of problem:
When I trying to build procmail from SRPM package I experience such failure:

/bin/sh ./initmake /bin/sh "/bin/sh" "/bin/rm -f" "mv -f" "ln" \
 "-lm -ldir -lx -lsocket -lnet -linet -lnsl_s -lnsl_i -lnsl -lsun -lgen -
lsockdns -ldl" \
 "/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib" \
 /dev/null "make" o \
 "cc" "-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686  " "  " "procmail lockfile formail mailstat" \
 "procmail formail lockfile" \
 "procmailrc procmailsc procmailex" "src man" \
 "/usr/bin" \
 "strip"
/bin/sh: /dev/null: Too many open files in system
Warning: your /bin/sh has noclobber turned on, avoiding it
***************************** WARNING *********************************
* You seem to have set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, this might cause *
* some trouble during the compilation of this package.  If the make   *
* does not finish by itself, do a: "make clean", clear                *
* LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the environment, and start over.               *
***************************** WARNING *********************************
Whoeaaa!  There's something fishy going on here.
You have a look and see if you detect anything uncanny:
*******************************************************
cat: _autotst.rrr: Too many open files in system
*******************************************************
I suggest you take a look at the definition of CFLAGS* and CC
in the Makefile before you try make again.
make[2843]: *** [init] Error 1
make[2843]: Leaving directory `/users/compiler/tmp/rtt/WORK_DIR/BUILD/procmail-
3.22'
make[2842]: *** [man/Makefile] Error 2
make[2842]: Leaving directory `/users/compiler/tmp/rtt/WORK_DIR/BUILD/procmail-
3.22'
make[2841]: *** [man/Makefile] Error 2

As you see there is system overflow when 'make' call yourself 2842 times. I've 
tried to investigated why it happens, but your 'make init' script is too 
tricky. Being called from Makefile it tries to substitute same Makefile and 
after it something have to gone further. But it doesn't succeed for some 
unknown reason and 'make' repeats 'make init' endlessly. Could you leave 
trickiness and develop something more stabile ??

Sometimes (very rarely definitely and only in the past) build succeeded, but 
most time I try now it fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to build source rpm.


Actual Results:  Infinite recursion while doing 'make init' until system 
resources are over. Build time error as a result.

Expected Results:  Succesfully built package.

Additional info:
procmail I've tried to build:
procmail-3.22-5.src.rpm

Here is system component's versions:
kernel-2.4.18-10smp
glibc-2.2.5-34
make-3.79.1-8

Feel free to ask more what is needed..