Problem with GNU make 3.79 on Darwin for HEAD after 8 December 2004 (Modified by Sean Seefried)

[Sean Seefried]

Hi all,

I can't work out what recent change has caused this but it seems that 
before 8 December things built just fine. After that date however 
'make' goes into an infinite loop (or just takes a really long time) 
when compiling in directory ghc/compiler.  This is using the version of 
GNU make provided with the Developer Tools which is 3.79. I tried using 
make version 3.79.1 and it worked just fine.

The strangest thing is that I can't see any commits to CVS that changed 
the build system (i.e. no Makefiles or configuration files have been 
changed).  Naturally module dependencies have changed and at this early 
stage I can only surmise that this has just teased out a latent bug in 
3.79 of GNU make.

What does everyone else think?

Cheers,

Sean