bug#9354: wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally
From:
Алиса Безкреста
Subject:
bug#9354: wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally
Date:
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:29:05 +0400
Hello
I ran apt-get build-dep emacs23 with result: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I took http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.3a.tar.gz gunzipped it and untarred it.
I entered the resulting source directory emacs-23.3 and ran ./configure.
Then ./configure started to check and when it ended, without pause, it repeated the same checkings, and again and again... Since it refused to stop by itself, I stopped it manually with C-z.
Then I removed the source directory emacs-23.3 and extracted a fresh one from the tarball.
Again I entered the source directory and ran ./configure.
Again it ran eternally.
I repeated this exercise a few times.
Whenever I stopped ./configure some tens of minutes after starting it, I noticed that it had created a few new files in the source directory but no Makefile
Whenever I allowed ./configure to run several hours before stopping it, I noticed that it had created in the source directory a whole army of new files, most of them with a name starting with conf followed by some random characters. An example: confTgLUip, confTxjcW5, confuo2ySs, confWbNvqm, confWO1cJQ, confWzfwLE, ... Besides these conf* files it had also created a Makefile. But when I ran make, it just continued with the checking over and over again.
I also noticed that the longer I left ./configure run, the more new processes were being started. After some hours they amounted to hundreds, all but few named /bin/bash ./config.status and make epaths-force.
This means that no usable Makefile is created in an acceptable time, as far as I accept to wait, so I can't use make to build emacs.
I wonder if everything is all right, so should I wait longer, for instance: several days, to configure to finish.
Or, configure is good, but there is something with my machine and OS that makes configure go mad.