Description:
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:25:30 -0500
From: VaX#n8 <vax@carolina.rr.com>
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: ./configure goes into infinite loop on mit-pthreads
MySQL
Part of configure reads:
(cd mit-pthreads; sh ./configure)
I invoked configure as so:
sh -v ./configure 2> /tmp/foo
This leaves the following at the end of /tmp/foo while its running:
./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
If I let this go on for long enough it becomes wedged and doesn't
respond to ctrl-C (SIGINT). It would appear to be some kind of resource
problem. After hitting control-Z and kill %1 a couple of times, it dies,
and leaves this near the end of /tmp/foo:
/tmp/foo:./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
/tmp/foo:./configure: mit-pthreads: No such file or directory
/tmp/foo:
/tmp/foo:# IMPORTANT - do not modify LIBS past this line - this hack is the on
ly way
/tmp/foo:# I know to add the static NSS magic if we have static NSS libraries
with
/tmp/foo:# glibc - Sasha
/tmp/foo:
/tmp/foo:LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $OTHER_LIBC_LIB"
/tmp/foo:LIBS="$LIBS $STATIC_NSS_FLAGS"
...
/tmp/foo: rm -f core core.* *.core &&
/tmp/foo: rm -rf conftest* confdefs* conf$$* $ac_clean_files &&
/tmp/foo: exit $exit_status
Apparently if the mit-pthreads directory doesn't exist, (I can't find it
in the distrubution), the line quoted at the beginning of this article
erroneously starts ./configure again and ends up in a transfinite loop.
I suggest, at a minimum, that the line reads:
(cd mit-pthreads && sh ./configure)
How to repeat:
Suggested fix:
I suggest, at a minimum, that the line reads:
(cd mit-pthreads && sh ./configure)
