Comment (by Roland Haas):

Since this is a bug in make and there seems to be no workaround, all we can do is try and make this less likely to happen.

Pull request:

https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/cactusutils/pull-requests/33/formaline-do-not-declare-sentinel-file-for

tries to do that by declaring (one) fewer files as secondary.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2345/infinite-make-loop-building-on-blue-waters