Re: Configure hangs at 'checking whether getcwd handles long file names properly...'

[Paul Eggert]

In <https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2019-10/msg00001.html>, Qingchuan 
Wang (qingcwan) wrote:

> It hangs when ‘./configure’, I tried 1.29, 1.31 and 1.32, all same.
>
> The ‘mkdir’ didn’t return peeking by /strace./

If mkdir did not return, that sounds like a significant bug in your 
kernel or filer or network. I could not reproduce the problem on a 
system similar to yours (RHEL 6.10, Linux kernel 
2.6.32-754.23.1.el6.x86_64, in an NFS file system served by a Netapp 
filer on a local area network).

To help you diagnose the problem, I suggest running the the attached 
program in your file system. This program is derived from the 'tar' 
configure script. I ran the program on my system and got the attached 
strace output. If you get similar output, then the bug is in how 
'configure' runs its program somehow. If you get output where the 
'mkdir' syscall hangs, you'll have a simple test program that you can 
send to your sysadmins and help them find the bug with their setup.

I'll CC: this to bug-gnulib since the symptoms arise in Gnulib-derived code.

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