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makefile forkbomb

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I noticed that a typo in the make target caused my computer to get quite slow, in particular with thousands of make processes being spawned.

I'd typed `make lintcheck` in https://github.com/canonical/jaas-documentation, but anything else that isn't a real make target like `make x` will trigger the same.

[forkbomb.log](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22908525/forkbomb.log)

I think this is caused by the catchall in https://github.com/canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack/blob/main/docs/Makefile#L183

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