I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
something or is this know to take forever?

Thanks guys,
- Brandon


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Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:12:57 -0400 (EDT)
bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
autoconf taking forever?
bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net> writes:
> I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
> has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
> something or is this know to take forever?

Something's broken.  autoconf executes in about 3 seconds on my machine,
which is doubtless a lot slower than yours.

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:58:30 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: autoconf taking forever? 
bpalmer writes:

> I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
> has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
> something or is this know to take forever?

For me, the autoconf run is "instantaneous".  Make sure you're using
Autoconf 2.13, and you don't have actual infinite loops in your code.  Or
perhaps the problem is in OpenBSD's m4 (which I suspect you are using)?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:03:03 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: autoconf taking forever?


I always found with new machines and configure scripts is if gethostname
does not resolve then the autoconfig will hang.
I would make sure your /etc/resolve.conf /etc/hosts , hostname domainname
are setup right and resolve from the command line.....man gethostbyname



On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:58:30 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] autoconf taking forever?
>
> bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net> writes:
> > I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
> > has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
> > something or is this know to take forever?
>
> Something's broken.  autoconf executes in about 3 seconds on my machine,
> which is doubtless a lot slower than yours.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
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Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
Dan <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
Re: autoconf taking forever? 
> > I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
> > has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
> > something or is this know to take forever?
>
> For me, the autoconf run is "instantaneous".  Make sure you're using
> Autoconf 2.13, and you don't have actual infinite loops in your code.  Or
> perhaps the problem is in OpenBSD's m4 (which I suspect you are using)?

I am running 2.13 (even on a clean checkout of 7.1.3) and the autoconf
takes forever.  However,  m4 is the process that's running forever,  so I
have no doubs that the problem is there.  What version do you use that
works?  I'll try getting a new version...  Any ideas where to look for a
solution though?

- Brandon

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Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:03:46 -0400 (EDT)
bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
Re: autoconf taking forever?
bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net> writes:
> I am running 2.13 (even on a clean checkout of 7.1.3) and the autoconf
> takes forever.  However,  m4 is the process that's running forever,  so I
> have no doubs that the problem is there.  What version do you use that
> works?

GNU m4 ... the version I have here is 

$ m4 --version
GNU m4 1.4

			regards, tom lane

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:57:30 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: autoconf taking forever? 