RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

[Ross Boulet]

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Christian Matuszewski
> >Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk
> at the prompt:
> > $ *
> > then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could
> expect a message like:
> > "bash: *: command not found".
> >
> > But when i execute the following Makefile:
> > foo:
> >     *
> >
[ ...snip...]
> >
> > and then make stays in an endless loop which prints
> lines
> > y
> > y
> > y
> > ...
> > to stdout
> >
> > When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk
> in the command
> > line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*'
> will give the same
> > messages and ends in an endless loop.
> 
>   WDDTT!
> 
Maybe it's just Monday and I'm brain dead, but I couldn't
find WDDTT in the OLOCA or elsewhere.  Could someone please
enlighten me?

Thanks

RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Ross Boulet
>Sent: 27 June 2005 15:54

>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Christian Matuszewski
>>> Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42

>>> When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk in the command
>>> line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' will give the same
>>> messages and ends in an endless loop.
>> 
>>   WDDTT!
>> 
> Maybe it's just Monday and I'm brain dead, but I couldn't
> find WDDTT in the OLOCA or elsewhere.  Could someone please
> enlighten me?
> 
> Thanks


http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html


    cheers,
      DaveK
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RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 27 June 2005 16:04

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Ross Boulet
>> Sent: 27 June 2005 15:54
> 
>>> ----Original Message----
>>>> From: Christian Matuszewski
>>>> Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42
> 
>>>> When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk in the command
>>>> line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' will give the same
>>>> messages and ends in an endless loop.
>>> 
>>>   WDDTT!
>>> 
>> Maybe it's just Monday and I'm brain dead, but I couldn't
>> find WDDTT in the OLOCA or elsewhere.  Could someone please enlighten me?
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> 
> http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html
> 


  It may be apocryphal, but I've seen the origin of the joke attributed to
Henny Youngman before.


http://www.funny2.com/henny.htm

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

[zzapper]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:15:17 +0100,  wrote:

>
>
>
>  It may be apocryphal, but I've seen the origin of the joke attributed to
>Henny Youngman before.
>
>
>http://www.funny2.com/henny.htm
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
A Henny joke

A man goes to a barbershop and asks "How many ahead of me?" "Five." The man leaves. He comes back
tomorrow, and asks, "How many ahead of me." "Four." The man leaves. He comes back the next day and
asks, "How many ahead of me?" "Six." The man leaves, and the barber says to another, "Follow that
man!" The man comes back and says, "He goes to your house!"
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