Thanks Tony, this was a very useful reply, yes I am getting OUTPUT and I left it running for more than 8 hours and it just kept going. Here is my config.nice CC="cc"; export CC CFLAGS="-O2"; export CFLAGS "./configure" \ "--prefix=/almptdbos1/app/apache_2.2.17" \ "--with-included-apr" \ "--enable-auth-anon=shared" \ "--enable-auth-dbm=shared" \ "--enable-cache=shared" \ "--enable-expires=shared" \ "--enable-headers=shared" \ "--enable-proxy=shared" \ "--enable-proxy-connect=shared" \ "--enable-proxy-ftp=shared" \ "--enable-proxy-http=shared" \ "--enable-rewrite=shared" \ "--enable-speling=shared" \ "--enable-disk-cache=shared" \ "--enable-mem-cache=shared" \ "--enable-vhost-alias=shared" \ "--enable-usertrack=shared" \ "--enable-unique-id=shared" \ "--enable-info=shared" \ "--enable-ssl=shared" \ "--enable-log-forensic=shared" \ "--enable-dumpio=shared" \ "--enable-logio=shared" \ "CC=cc" \ "CFLAGS=-O2" \ "$@" Thanks Rohit -----Original Message----- From: Bennett, Tony [mailto:Bennett.Tony@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 3:28 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Apache Configure going into infinite loop Rohit Well... configure produces OUTPUT which tells you what it's doing... Are you getting OUTPUT??? Various components of Apache (APR, APR-UTIL, etc.) will run their own configure... ...which look like a "repeat" of the various configure tests...but it's not. I just ran my "configure and build" and it took 32 minutes, which includes compiling everything. My output from running configure starts with this: checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking build system type... rs6000-ibm-aix checking host system type... rs6000-ibm-aix checking target system type... rs6000-ibm-aix Configuring APR library Platform: rs6000-ibm-aix checking for working mkdir -p... yes APR Version: 1.3.3 checking for chosen layout... apr checking for gcc... xlc_r checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no checking whether xlc_r accepts -g... yes checking for xlc_r option to accept ISO C89... none needed Applying APR hints file rules for rs6000-ibm-aix adding "-U__STR__" to CPPFLAGS setting AIX_XLC to "yes" adding "-qHALT=E" to CFLAGS setting apr_sysvsem_is_global to "yes" setting apr_lock_method to "USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE" setting LDFLAGS to "-Wl,-brtl" (Default will be unix) checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... xlc_r -E checking for gawk... no < stuff deleted > -tony -----Original Message----- From: Goel, Rohit [mailto:rohit.goel@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:58 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Apache Configure going into infinite loop Hi Tony, Thanks for the reply, usually in how much time does the configure complete? Thanks Rohit -----Original Message----- From: Bennett, Tony [mailto:Bennett.Tony@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:50 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Apache Configure going into infinite loop Here's how we issue configure on AIX 5.3 (and 6.1) with Apache 2.2.10, bearing in mind we were using IBM's "C for AIX", which necessitated specifying CC=xlc_r and CPPFLAGS=-D_THREAD_SAFE. Here's the contents of config.nice: CC="xlc_r"; export CC CPPFLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE "; export CPPFLAGS "./configure" \ "--prefix=/usr/local/apache" \ "--with-mpm=worker" \ "--without-berkeley-db" \ "--with-ssl=/usr/local/dms/openssl" \ "--enable-ssl=static" \ "--enable-dav=static" \ "--enable-dav_fs=static" \ "--enable-dav-lock=static" \ "--enable-logio=static" \ "--enable-auth_extern=static" \ "--enable-dms_apr=static" \ "--enable-proxy=static" \ "--enable-proxy_balancer=static" \ "--enable-proxy-ajp=static" \ "--enable-proxy-http=static" \ "--enable-static-rotatelogs" \ "--with-included-apr" \ "--enable-static-support" \ "$@" -----Original Message----- From: Goel, Rohit [mailto:rohit.goel@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:47 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Apache Configure going into infinite loop Hi, I am trying to install Apache 2.2.17 on AIX 5.3, when I run the configure command it is going into infinite loop checking for the configuration again and again. Can anyone help me with this. The configure command is : ./configure --prefix=/almptdbos1/app/apache_2.2.17 Thanks Rohit --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. 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