On Sep 7, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Walter P. Little wrote:
I'm experiencing some odd behavior when running make on glibc-2.18
in section 5.7 of the 7.4-rc2 development book. I am using Ubuntu
12.04 LTS.
I have followed all of the instructions thus far. When I run make,
it starts compiling but then hangs. top shows gawk with 100% cpu for
a long time with no apparent progress in the make. Anyone else seen
this? In any case, thought I should report it in case a change
needs to be made to 7.4 before it goes stable. If you have any
suggestions on how to fix it, please let me know, and if I figure it
out, I'll report back.
Thanks!
Some relevant info that may be helpful:
Output of version_check.sh from section vii.
bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release
/bin/sh -> /bin/bash
Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22
bison (GNU Bison) 2.5
/usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc
bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.
Coreutils: 8.13
diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2
find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
GNU Awk 3.1.8
/usr/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
(Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.4) 2.15
grep (GNU grep) 2.10
gzip 1.4
Linux version 3.8.0-29-generic (buildd@panlong) (gcc version 4.6.3
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #42~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 14
16:19:23 UTC 2013
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
GNU Make 3.81
patch 2.6.1
Perl version='5.14.2';
GNU sed version 4.2.1
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
Texinfo: makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
xz (XZ Utils) 5.1.0alpha
g++ compilation OK
I just went through this step using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and didn't have
this issue. I've seen some strange things happen in VM's. I'm using
vmware for the build, too.
I think it is a bit hasty of the dev team to raise the gawk version in
host system requirements when one person comments that they have a
problem. It isn't cause gawk is too old. The problem isn't with gawk.
There is something else in the user's build causing this. I cannot
replicate it what soever. There are still lots of distros out there
using gawk < 4.0. Once again, I cannot replicate the problem with
multiple distros that use gawk 3.1.8 or earlier and in a vm.
Sincerely,
William Harrington
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