Hi Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the report.
No problem... thanks for the software & support. By the way, about the
silent/parallel mode for tests, I found the messages you were talking
about but didn't look further into it... anyway, thanks for the tip.
* Chris Pickett wrote on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:56:36AM CET:
I don't really know what happened, it just hung, wouldn't respond to
Ctrl-C, and I had to kill it.
Can you reproduce this? Is it because you killed a previous autoconf
instance and the cache directory is still locked?
Yes I can reproduce this, and it happens with a fresh version of the
automake-1.10.1 distribution.
On the other hand, when I try to run autoreconf --install on my actual
project, it hangs running aclocal and autom4te, although aclocal does
respond to SIGINT.
Note that I've had autoconf working on this system for about a year,
this only started happening recently... something changed, somewhere.
If you tell me how to turn on verbose logging I can find the exact part
where it's hung.
I noticed that I couldn't delete my autom4te.cache directory:
conftest $ ll autom4te.cache/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 pickett xxx 0 Feb 23 00:27 .nfsCC131
because of that .nfs file. I don't really know how nfs works
internally, but if I delete that file manually it just comes back.
I suppose you can rename the directory (and delete it as soon as you've
reset the NFS connection).
It doesn't work. I have a ~/deleteme directory where I dump stale NFS
things and periodically attempt to rm -rf, but it can take days for
things to get released. I don't have anything more than user
priviledges, and I don't think the sysadmins have a mandate to work on
fixing this as long as I have a workaround.
The solution is documented in the autom4te manual:
As an example, to disable Autoconf caches (`autom4te.cache')
globally, include the following lines in `~/.autom4te.cfg':
That prevents the locking, right.
While we're at telling AIX NFS stories,
My only other AIX (NFS? /bin/sh?) story is that export
CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash doesn't seem to speed up configure by
all that much.
Cheers,
Chris
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