Re: Weird fork bomb (current LFS-svn, building xulrunner)

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:11:44AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
>  For the third time, I made sure I had top open.  As soon as the
> problem started, I had about an extra 275 jobs (actual number 377 -
> with the same number of terms, and top, I initially had 101 jobs on
> an idle machine) and the build uses two scripts.  And at least the
> first 39 of those jobs were cc1plus (according to 'top' - the only
> other thing that showed was top itself).
> 
>  Anyone else seeing anything weird like this ?  Any ideas ?
> 
 Embarrassingly (sp?) it's down to me.  I'd copied the BLFS book's
configuration for xulrunner, including the line
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j$MAKEFLAGS

 Like one ofi the lines in the mozilla config, which I caught, that
dollar needs to be escaped.  If it _is_ escaped, but MAKEFLAGS is not
set, make traps it and errors.

 Currently building with -j2 while I write this.  Will fix the book
somewhen, once I've built firefox.

ĸen
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