KDevelop hangs on recursive symlink importing C++ project with custom makefile

[Michael]

Binary package hint: kdevelop

Affects: Kubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Start KDevelop IDE for C/C++
2) Select Project/Import existing project
3) Select a project directory containing a recursive symlink somewhere beneath it
4) Fill in everything else and continue up until "Populate the project"

The hang occurs in the method CustomProjectPart::findNewFiles() in buildtools/custommakefiles/customprojectpart.cpp. This function descends into directories recursively without checking for recursive symlinks.

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Reported upstream as http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173924

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

If upstream can't fix it, there's not much we can do :(