Add a patch from Paul Eggert that's been lying around in my directory for

a long time, disabling stack size limits where possible.

Update version to beta2.

4 files changed, 38 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dc4c899..108cbc0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1334,6 +1334,15 @@
 
 	* i18n/ja.po: Installed an updated translation.
 
+2001-09-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+
+	* configure.in (AC_CHECK_HEADERS): Add sys/resource.h.
+	(AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Add getrlimit, setrlimit.
+
+	* main.c: Include <sys/resource.h> if it, getrlimit, and setrlimit
+	are available.
+	(main): Get rid of any avoidable limit on stack size.
+
 2001-09-04  Paul D. Smith  <psmith@gnu.org>
 
 	* i18n/da.po: Installed an updated translation.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4bad3e2..a8c35ec 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_INIT([GNU make],[3.81beta1],[bug-make@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU make],[3.81beta2],[bug-make@gnu.org])
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 AC_REVISION([[$Id$]])
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ AC_HEADER_DIRENT
 AC_HEADER_STAT
 AC_HEADER_TIME
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdlib.h locale.h unistd.h limits.h fcntl.h string.h \
-		 memory.h sys/param.h sys/time.h sys/timeb.h)
+		 memory.h sys/param.h sys/resource.h sys/time.h sys/timeb.h)
 
 # Set a flag if we have an ANSI C compiler
 if test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc" != no; then
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ fi
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(	memcpy memmove strchr strdup mkstemp mktemp fdopen \
 	        bsd_signal dup2 getcwd realpath sigsetmask sigaction \
                 getgroups seteuid setegid setlinebuf setreuid setregid \
-                setvbuf pipe strerror strsignal)
+                getrlimit setrlimit setvbuf pipe strerror strsignal)
 
 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED
 
diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi
index 8c367ba..9b6f9d8 100644
--- a/doc/make.texi
+++ b/doc/make.texi
@@ -2423,8 +2423,10 @@ prog3 : prog3.o sort.o utils.o
 @end example
 
 @noindent
-Now you can say just @samp{make} to remake all three programs, or specify
-as arguments the ones to remake (as in @samp{make prog1 prog3}).
+Now you can say just @samp{make} to remake all three programs, or
+specify as arguments the ones to remake (as in @samp{make prog1
+prog3}).  Phoniness is not inherited: the prerequisites of a phony
+target are not themselves phony, unless explicitly declared to be so.
 
 When one phony target is a prerequisite of another, it serves as a subroutine
 of the other.  For example, here @samp{make cleanall} will delete the
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 726729b..33c15b4 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 # include <fcntl.h>
 #endif
 
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H) && defined(HAVE_GETRLIMIT) && defined(HAVE_SETRLIMIT)
+# define SET_STACK_SIZE
+#endif
+
+#ifdef SET_STACK_SIZE
+# include <sys/resource.h>
+#endif
+
 #ifdef _AMIGA
 int __stack = 20000; /* Make sure we have 20K of stack space */
 #endif
@@ -881,6 +889,20 @@ main (int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
   no_default_sh_exe = 1;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef SET_STACK_SIZE
+ /* Get rid of any avoidable limit on stack size.  */
+  {
+    struct rlimit rlim;
+
+    /* Set the stack limit huge so that alloca does not fail.  */
+    if (getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim) == 0)
+      {
+        rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max;
+        setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
+      }
+  }
+#endif
+
   /* Needed for OS/2 */
   initialize_main(&argc, &argv);