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Makefile grows huge due to repeated lines

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ilmari Lauhakangas <ilmari.lauhakangas <at> libreoffice.org>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Makefile grows huge due to repeated lines
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:48:31 +0200

This was noticed when configuring curl: 
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/9843

Curl's lib/Makefile might grow to fill all the available disk space on 
some Linux systems (observed on Debian 11).

On my Arch Linux system, the Makefile fortunately stays at around 14MB. 
Curl developer's comment in the GitHub issue on the number of 
repetitions in my Makefile: "The 628 number is curious. It seems to be 
the number of lib source files times two!"

I bisected the problem to

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=08849db866b44510f6b8fd49e313c91a43a3dfd3
deps: fix corner-case "make distclean" bug

Repro steps:

On automake's side:

$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=/tmp/amdev && make && make install

On curl's side (the configure options are from LibreOffice where this 
was originally observed):

$ am=/tmp/amdev
$ env PERL5LIB=$am/lib AUTOMAKE="$am/bin/automake" 
ACLOCAL="$am/bin/aclocal" autoreconf -fi
$ ./configure \
  --without-gnutls --without-mbedtls \
  --enable-ftp --enable-http --enable-ipv6 \
  --without-libidn2 --without-libpsl --without-librtmp \
  --without-libssh2 --without-nghttp2 \
  --without-libssh --without-brotli \
  --without-ngtcp2 --without-quiche \
  --without-zstd --without-hyper --without-libgsasl --without-gssapi \
  --disable-mqtt --disable-ares \
  --disable-dict --disable-file --disable-gopher --disable-imap \
  --disable-ldap --disable-ldaps --disable-manual --disable-pop3 \
  --disable-rtsp --disable-smb --disable-smtp --disable-telnet  \
  --disable-tftp  \
  --with-nss --with-nss-deprecated \
  --with-openssl \
  --without-ca-bundle --without-ca-path

Regards,
Ilmari Lauhakangas

Message #8 received at 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: ilmari.lauhakangas <at> libreoffice.org
Cc: 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59288: Makefile grows huge due to repeated lines
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:38:35 -0700

    Subject: bug#59288: Makefile grows huge due to repeated lines

Thanks for the report.

    I bisected the problem to
    https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=08849db866b44510f6b8fd49e313c91a43a3dfd3

And even more so for that.

    "The 628 number is curious. It seems to be the number of lib source
    files times two!"

Interesting. Easy to understand.

    Repro steps:

I'll make sure it reproduces for me. I have no idea offhand what to
do about it, but I'll look into it as soon as I can, unless by some
miracle someone else gets interested in automake maintenance ...

Thanks again,
Karl

Message #11 received at 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ilmari Lauhakangas <ilmari.lauhakangas <at> libreoffice.org>
To: 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: close 59288
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:34:38 +0200

Jan Engelhardt discovered this is not a problem in automake, but in curl:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2023-03/msg00010.html

Ilmari

Message #14 received at 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: 59288 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 59288-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59288: close 59288
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 15:24:21 -0700

Thanks Ilmari, thanks Jan. Closing.

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