From: tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: B20: Kaffe configure script locking on NT 4.0. 19 Nov 1998 09:08:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3653609F.2F2BFCE.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <199811171428 DOT JAA20848 AT host DOT ott DOT igs DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mtr AT ottawa DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > The configure script in Kaffe's source tree seems to be causing the Cygwin > (b20) tools no end of grief on my Windows NT 4.0 workstation. Basically, > the script starts running and producing the expected output ("checking for > foobie... yes" "checking for bletch... no"), but at random points the script > just stops executing. BASH (in the form of /bin/sh.exe) sits there and > sucks up 100% of the CPU time, but nothing gets executed. Control-C > processing doesn't work, but the console window can be terminated. > > The problem is partially deterministic. I can replicate it 100% of the time > -- I've never had the configuration script successfully run to completion. > It breaks at different points, however, with each run. Sometimes it stops > very early in the process (seemingly before it even gets the chance to > execute the first sub-script), sometimes it stops after processing > seemingly hundreds of checks. It never actually finishes, however. > > Can somebody please give me an idea of a) what the problem could be and b) > what I can do to work around it? (Please CC my personal address on any > replies.) if it is a autoconf generated script your should have a look to config.log at the top directory. This may give more conclussions what is happening. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".