Is there a mechanism for detecting and/or handling the following
scenario?
CC from Sun Workshop 5.0 create a directory SunWS_cache/ in cwd during
compiling/linking. The directory contain a locking mechanism with a
symlink (SunWS_cache/CC_lock -> ./SunWS_cache). Now, as it happens,
sometimes CC running in AFS (a distributed filesystem) have problem
with the locking mechanism for this file and hang indefinitely saying:
SunWS_cache: Information: Database is locked, waiting....
Naturaly, configure also hang indefinitely.
Indefinitely hanging programs aren't entirely uncommon, so perhaps
there is proven method of handling this.
