bug#385: bug#385: 'make build' hangs in idl configuration (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:38:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Gray <[email protected]>
To: Karl Sackett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lnx-bbc-bugs] bug#385: 'make build' hangs in idl configuration

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Karl Sackett wrote:

> I found two locations in idl's configure file:
>
> 1457:               CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I-"
> 1468:  ac_cv_cpp_nostdinc=-I-
>
> I changed one, then the other, then both.  No success.  The script still
> hangs.  Is there something I missed?  Is there something else I can try?

Don't do a make clean after the modification, but rather resume the make
build under gar/meta/lnx-bbc.   Here's a patch showing the modification
that I made to make it shoot through the hang.

You might also try running your build in the background, where stdin
wouldn't hang it.

--- configure>di1999-10-17 13:03:37.000000000 -0500rity.d/libIDL-0.6.8/conf
+++ ../../work/singularity.d/libIDL-0.6.8/configureity.d2003-07-22 13:41:29.000000000 -0500diff -Nconfigure ../../work/singularity.d/libIDL-0.6.8/config
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@onfigure ../../work/singularity.d/libIDL-0.6.8/configu
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6work/singularity.d/libIDL-0.6.8/configu
 else
   saved_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-               CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I-"
+               CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I."
                cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<EOF
 #line 1460 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"

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