I'm seeing the exact same issue on multiple version of Fedora. See here: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-December/049833.html
Regards, Stephen > When building OVS (the latest master) under Ubuntu 12.04, it stuck at the > unit test "test atomic operations” and never finishes (or it could just be > unbearably slow). This problem doesn’t happen in Ubuntu 14.04, however. > > library unit tests > > 21: test flow extractor ok > 22: test TCP/IP checksumming ok > 23: test hash functions ok > 24: test hash map ok > 25: test hash index ok > 26: test cuckoo hash ok > 27: test atomic operations <stuck here forever> > > This could be because gcc in Ubuntu 12.04 is too old that it can’t handle > atomic operations very well. Please see more details below about two > environments I experimented. Is this a known issue? > > vagrant@precise64:~$ lsb_release -a > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Ubuntu > Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS > Release: 12.04 > Codename: precise > vagrant@precise64:~$ gcc -v > Using built-in specs. > COLLECT_GCC=gcc > COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/lto-wrapper > Target: x86_64-linux-gnu > Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro > 4.6.3-1ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs -- > enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program- > suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib -- > libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix -- > with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls -- > with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable- > libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable- > objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable- > checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu -- > target=x86_64-linux-gnu > Thread model: posix > gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) > vagrant@precise64:~$ > > > vagrant@ubuntu-14:~/ovs$ lsb_release -a > No LSB modules are available. > Distributor ID: Ubuntu > Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS > Release: 14.04 > Codename: trusty > vagrant@ubuntu-14:~/ovs$ gcc -v > Using built-in specs. > COLLECT_GCC=gcc > COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper > Target: x86_64-linux-gnu > Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.8.2- > 19ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs -- > enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr -- > program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id -- > libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix -- > with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls -- > with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable- > libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap -- > enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java- > awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj- > 4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java- > 1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj- > 4.8-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj- > jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch -- > disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib- > list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release -- > build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu > Thread model: posix > gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) > vagrant@ubuntu-14:~/ovs$ > > > — > Motonori Shindo > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev