Bug#588978: ocaml-nox: ocamlbuild cannot handle symlink loops

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

On 07/14/2010 12:38 AM, Eric Cooper wrote:
> Package: ocaml-nox Version: 3.11.2-1 Severity: normal
> 
> ocamlbuild enters an infinite loop if a symlink creates a cycle in 
> the source directory.
> 
> To produce the problem:
> 
> 1. cd to the source directory of a project using ocamlbuild
> 
> 2. do "ln -s . loop"
> 
> 3. run ocamlbuild
> 
> Ironically, I discovered this while trying to prevent *my* OCaml code
> from exhibiting this same problem.  When I created a cycle to test
> it, I couldn't build the program any more :-)
> 

Is this really a bug?

Regards,

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