On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:36:09PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > I am trying to get the components for a Debian mipsel-base.tgz built, > based on glibc-2.2.2. I am working in a chroot()-environment, where I have > installed glibc 2.2.2, binutils 2.10.91 and gcc 2.95.3 as precompiled > binaries, all from Maciej's packages (glibc-2.2.2-2.mipsel.rpm, > gcc-2.95.3-14.mipsel.rpm, binutils-2.10.91-1.mipsel.rpm plus devel and > dependency packages). Gawk and perl are self-compiled inside the > chroot()-environment. When trying to compile fileutils, the ./configure > starts ok, but when coming to "checking for working mktime..." the script > just hangs forever, and according to top there is nothing consuming CPU > time (except for top itself). Compiling the fileutils on the "host > system", i.e. outside the chroot()-environment using egcs-1.0.3a and > glibc-2.0.6 the problem does not appear. Can anybody confirm this on > another system? Any ideas what can be the reason for this? Does you chroot environment have a mounted /proc filesystem? In the past we had obscure libc bugs which were triggered when /proc were not mounted. Ralf
