Build Error -1073740940

[Norbert Thiebaud]

--enable-verbose is messed-up
in configure.ac it set VERBOSE to

--enable-verbose -> YES
--disable-verbose -> NO
neither -> empty

and then VERBOSE is exported via config_host.mk

But gmake and most of the rest of the build use
verbose=non-empty/empty as a test
typically
$(if $(verbose)$(VERBOSE),<is verbose>,<is_not_verbose>))

some isolated place have a test of  VERBOSE= YES/NO
which conflict with the semantic of verbose


all that being said...

verbose=t make  does also fails on Windows
when ran at the top level, very early on while processing the Dep
targets apparently..
make --debug=all did not provide much more info.. short of building a
debug version of make and taking a core, it is hard to guess what is
going on, but very likely some buffer overrun bug in make itself

So.. don't do that.... do not use --enable-verbose (for the reason
stated at the top of this post.. it is broken)
and do not use verbose=t at the top level,  it is really not that
useful anyway, except to fill you disk with a huge build log) as it
drown the ouput in tons of useless details

if you need to get the command line, you can do that inside a given module

for example if module foo is failing and you need to see the command then

at the top level

make foo.all

this build foo and all the pre-req module for foo
then cd foo
and
make
there
When one run make directly in a module directory the default is
verbose... so no need for verbose=t make in that case

Norbert