Re: Crash with recursive make

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:46:27 +0100
> From: "John Hall" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> 
> I then realised that the unique thing about my setup is that I'm
> building with VS 2005, so I recompiled make with VS 2003 and the crash
> no longer happens. I would suggest, therefore, that the version of
> 'close' in the  C runtime shipped with VS 2005 is stricter about
> checking its arguments, which is why I see it and you don't.

I'm not sure your conclusion is correct: I'd expect `close' to be in
some DLL that is part of Windows, not of a compiler package.  E.g., I
don't have VS at all; my Make is built with MinGW.