Bug#588978: cannot reproduce with 3.11.2-2 or 3.12.1

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:08:13PM +0100, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> I cannot reproduce this problem, neither in stable with 3.11.2-2
> nor in testing with 3.12.1-2. I see
> 
>     blau tews 4> ls -al
>     total 76
>     drwx------  2 tews users  4096 Mar  7 22:06 .
>     drwxrwxrwt 14 root root  65536 Mar  7 21:44 ..
>     -rw-r--r--  1 tews users    22 Mar  7 21:54 a.ml
>     lrwxrwxrwx  1 tews users     1 Mar  7 21:54 loop -> .
> 
>     blau tews 5> ocamlbuild -classic-display a.byte
>     /usr/bin/ocamldep.opt -modules a.ml > a.ml.depends
>     /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt -c -o a.cmo a.ml
>     /usr/bin/ocamlc.opt a.cmo -o a.byte
> 
>     blau tews 6> ./a.byte
>     Hello

You're right, the bug doesn't occur with a project this simple.

But it still occurs if I introduce a loop in the approx build
directory, which you can try by doing
    $ git clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/approx.git
    $ cd approx
    $ ln -s . loop
    $ ocamlbuild -classic-display approx.byte
    [ runs forever ]

I'll try to narrow down what additional files are causing the problem,
but I haven't found it yet.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u