[PHP-INSTALL] configure hangs - no output

[Matt M.]

First of, I appologize for the long message. I am trying to build php on 
a fresh install of Fedora Core 1. The configure script just hangs with 
no output whatsoever, so I have no idea where to start troubleshooting. 
It just hangs and eats up 97% of my CPU. It does not matter what options 
I give to configure. No options, still hangs. The only thing I could 
think to do was run an strace on it. Here's the output from that. There 
seems to be quite a few lines of this: 'rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, 
[], 8)  = 0'. Not sure what it means. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated. I need to get this system configured yesterday.

$ strace ./configure --help

execve("./configure", ["./configure", "--help"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="localhost.localdomain", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x964a000
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40375, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 40375, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xbf5e6000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\16z\000"..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13016, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, 
-1, 0) = 0xbf5e5000
old_mmap(0x7a0000, 14792, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7a0000
old_mmap(0x7a3000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x2000) = 0x7a3000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\272N\000"..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16312, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0x4ea000, 12148, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4ea000
old_mmap(0x4ec000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x1000) = 0x4ec000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)    = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\10:\000"..., 
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1578228, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0x38b000, 1281996, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 
0x38b000
old_mmap(0x4be000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 
3, 0x132000) = 0x4be000
old_mmap(0x4c2000, 8140, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4c2000
close(3)                                = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, 
-1, 0) = 0xbf5e4000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xbf5e4080, 
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, 
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0xbf5e6000, 40375)               = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
close(3)                                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x964a000
brk(0x966b000)                          = 0x966b000
brk(0)                                  = 0x966b000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=33513072, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xbf3e4000
close(3)                                = 0
getuid32()                              = 0
getgid32()                              = 0
geteuid32()                             = 0
getegid32()                             = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1081437425
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY)             = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=184, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xbf3e3000
read(3, "/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0\nnone /pr"..., 4096) = 184
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0xbf3e3000, 4096)                = 0
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY)         = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0xbf3e3000
read(3, "        total:    used:    free:"..., 1024) = 521
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0xbf3e3000, 4096)                = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="localhost.localdomain", ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/src/php-4.3.5", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
getpid()                                = 1985
getppid()                               = 1984
getpgrp()                               = 1984
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x8075920, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x3b2a58}, {SIG_DFL}, 
8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
open("./configure", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbfea5e48) = -1 ENOTTY 
(Inappropriate ioctl for device)
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
read(3, "#!/bin/sh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"..., 
80) = 80
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET)            = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
dup2(3, 255)                            = 255
close(3)                                = 0
fcntl64(255, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)       = 0
fcntl64(255, F_GETFL)                   = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat64(255, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2223469, ...}) = 0
_llseek(255, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)          = 0
open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=21436, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 21436, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xbf3de000
close(3)                                = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
read(255, "#!/bin/sh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"..., 
8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0

[ About 397 more lines like the above ]

read(255, "pd=DIR       Build PHP as phttpd"..., 8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
[ About 77 More like that ]

read(255, "    Include iconv support\"\nac_he"..., 8192) = 8192
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
[ About 20 more until I killed it ]

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TIA
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Matt M.