Re: ENOEXEC from exec*() functions...?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 19:00 +0000, Martin Dorey wrote:
> Sorry to reanimate this but I think I've run into a regression in 4.2.92
> over 4.2.1 that's probably related to this old email thread.  Bug or
> email, bug or email... email:
> 
> martind@swiftboat:~/playpen/make-2019-10-08$ cat > Makefile
> all: ; ./dodgy
> martind@swiftboat:~/playpen/make-2019-10-08$ cat > dodgy
> true
> martind@swiftboat:~/playpen/make-2019-10-08$ chmod +x dodgy
> martind@swiftboat:~/playpen/make-2019-10-08$ make ./dodgy
> make: *** [Makefile:1: all] Error 127
> 
> "make" is 4.2.92 (today's git), where /usr/bin/make is actually 4.0, but
> 4.2.1 behaves the same.

Some changes were added for this to allow the posix_spawn detection to try
to determine whether it works properly; please try make 4.2.93 and see if
you get the right behavior.

It worked for me on GNU/Linux and MacOS.