On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:36:09PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > starts ok, but when coming to "checking for working mktime..." the script > just hangs forever, and according to top there is nothing consuming CPU ... > 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? I can confirm that this does *not* happen for me with the same C library but current CVS binutils and gcc (3.0 branch) on a big-endian system. I have observed a definite and reproducible problem, however, with the version of binutils you described; in my case, the symptom was insertion of garbage instructions into my kernel. The problem went away when I upgraded binutils. I have no idea whether this is related to the problem you are seeing. I would suggest that you extract the test that configure is running into a small C program (the tests are usually C programs); try to compile, link, and run that program, and see what happens. It could be that the compiler or linker is hanging trying to build it, or that the program itself hangs for some reason. If the program hangs, run it in a debugger and/or use strace. Then post a minimal testcase. -- Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org> http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "I should have crushed his marketing-addled skull with a fucking bat."
