<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am trying to run configure for a minimal install but three times now it hangs on this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">checking return values of system... yes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">checking to see if we can handle contexts blocking on IO... yes</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">checking to see if strings.h is needed for bzero... no</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">checking whether we can use gcc labels…</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In another window, `top` shows this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br class=""> 90224 ubuntu 20 0 1788 460 392 R 99.7 0.0 8:31.07 conftest<br class=""> 31307 ubuntu 20 0 3127160 374556 168292 S 4.3 9.6 2:52.44 firef</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interestingly, hitting CTRL-C interrupts the process and allows the script to complete so I am assuming that something in the test program caused the hang up. I am now waiting to see if the build will complete with errors, the script completed with this output:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">the set of library grades to install will be<br class=""> hlc.gc</font><br class=""><br class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Configuring to install 1 grades.<br class="">This will likely take 10 to 30 minutes.<br class="">You can make the install faster by installing fewer grades<br class="">as shown by the fine-tuning section of the INSTALL file or by<br class="">compiling the files of each grade in parallel which you can do<br class="">via a command such as make PARALLEL=-j2 install.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which I’ve seen a few times now and doesn’t seem to be indicative of any future problems, IIRC for my experience at least.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Sean</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>