Interupting make, causing my machine to lock up?

[Grant Schoep]

I think I just figured out the cause of a very annoying problem. My
Linux box has been seemingly randomly locking up. Happens every few days
ago. I thought it was my machine going bad, until I have reproduced this
one 4 other similar linux boxes.

Basically, I am using Redhat Enterprise 3.0, make 3.79.1, g++ 3.2.3

In reality, I guess this probably isn't a probleml with make, as an
application shouldn't cause the machine to lockup. But was wondering if
anyone had an idea as too what make, or maybe the compiler is doing to
tick the machine off so bad.

Basically, to lock my machine up, or any machien(all Redhat ES3) around
here, all I need to do is hit Ctrl-C when I am building my app, they key
point here is it will only lock up, if it is in a Makefile, that was
called from a higher level makefile.

Anyone here of this before? Its probably a kernel issue, just wondering
if anyone a clue as to why Make seems to cause this.

Yes, I've already decided to stop "changing" my mind when starting to
build. I just let it build all the way through now instead of hit ctrl-c
to interupt it.