> make -B makes all targets (including distclean etc) > For even more fun, try "sudo rm -f /" next time ;-)
I don't think that's what was happening on my side. Here's what I have, make repeatedly tries to build build/make/Makefile : $ ./sage --version SageMath version 7.4.beta5, Release Date: 2016-09-16 $ make -B build make build/make/Makefile make[1]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[2]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[3]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[4]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[5]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[6]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[7]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile make[8]: Entering directory '/home/defeo/sage' make build/make/Makefile and it goes on... it quickly reaches thousands of nested invocations, only solution is to kill it. On another machine this fails after exactly 234 invocations. My guess is that this is dependent on the version of make. Luca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.