I have additional information on this issue that I thought I should share
just in case someone else experiences this problem. I added debugging code
to the W3M configure script to help me determine exactly where the problem
is occurring. I discovered that the problem is actually occurring after the
code I included in my earlier message, in the following block of code.

  case $ac_prog in
>     # Accept absolute paths.
>     [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*)
>       re_direlt='/[^/][^/]*/\.\./'
>       # Canonicalize the path of ld
>       ac_prog=`echo $ac_prog| sed 's%\\\\%/%g'`
>       while echo $ac_prog | grep "$re_direlt" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
>         ac_prog=`echo $ac_prog| sed "s%$re_direlt%/%"`
>       done
>       test -z "$LD" && LD="$ac_prog"
>       ;;
>   "")
>     # If it fails, then pretend we aren't using GCC.
>     ac_prog=ld
>     ;;
>   *)
>     # If it is relative, then search for the first ld in PATH.
>     with_gnu_ld=unknown
>     ;;
>   esac
>

Specifically the freeze is occurring in the while loop in which grep is
called.

I had the following packages installed, which appear to be obsolete.



   - mingw-w64-i686-grep
   - mingw-w64-i686-sed
   - mingw-w64-x86_64-grep
   - mingw-w64-x86_64-sed


When I removed the packages, the problem went away.
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