make-4.4 became intentionally more eager at rebuilding outdated Makefile includes. Currently this causes `dtc` to spin infinitely in parser/dependency loop: $ make ... CHK version_gen.h BISON dtc-parser.tab.h DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c CHK version_gen.h BISON dtc-parser.tab.h DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c ... # never stops After the change build eventually fails when gets into this state: $ make ... CHK version_gen.h UPD version_gen.h DEP util.c BISON dtc-parser.tab.h DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c CHK version_gen.h BISON dtc-parser.tab.h DEP dtc-lexer.lex.c DEP dtc-parser.tab.c Makefile:394: *** "Make re-executed itself 10 times. Infinite recursion?". Stop. The actual recursion will be fixed separately. Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@xxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9f1223f..e7a0dcb 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -389,3 +389,7 @@ clean: libfdt_clean pylibfdt_clean tests_clean $(BISON) -b $(basename $(basename $@)) -d $< FORCE: + +ifeq ($(MAKE_RESTARTS),10) +$(error "Make re-executed itself $(MAKE_RESTARTS) times. Infinite recursion?") +endif -- 2.37.2