[m-users.] configure hangs on pi4...

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Sean,

On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Sean Charles (emacstheviking) wrote:

> I am trying to run configure for a minimal install but three times now it hangs on this:
> 
> :
> :
> checking return values of system... yes
> checking to see if we can handle contexts blocking on IO... yes
> checking to see if strings.h is needed for bzero... no
> checking whether we can use gcc labels…
> 
> In another window, `top` shows this:
> 
>     PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
>   90224 ubuntu    20   0    1788    460    392 R  99.7   0.0   8:31.07 conftest
>   31307 ubuntu    20   0 3127160 374556 168292 S   4.3   9.6   2:52.44 firef
> 
> 
> so it think it is doing *something* but who knows what! I wondered if
> anybody else had encountered this problem building mercury on a pi ?

Which version of Mercury is this?  Something similar was happening on
other aarch64 systems; I fixed it in the ROTDs at the beginning of this
year.

The fixes are not in any of the stable releases.

Julien.