Public bug reported: Hi, I set CDPATH in my zsh shell, and somehow this caused off behaviour in /bin/sh (dash) when building mailman 2.x. It somehow stopped "cd $$d" from working when run from a Mailman makefile. While this was a problem with my environment, the build system's behaviour in the face of it isn't very nice. As the Makefiles use (cd $$d; make) if the cd fails, they run the make anyway, which causes infinite recursion. If this was changed to (cd $$d && make) or (make -C $$d) then this wouldn't happen and you would get an error message, rather than thrashing. Thanks, James ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Makefiles in 2.x use unsafe shell construct that can lead to infinite recursion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610893 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.