[debbugs-tracker] bug#9354: closed (wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally)

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> wishing to build, ./configure runs eternally
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> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:29:05 +0400
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> Hello
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> I ran apt-get build-dep emacs23 with result: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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> I took
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.3a.tar.gz
> gunzipped it and untarred it.
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> I entered the resulting source directory emacs-23.3 and ran ./configure.
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> Then ./configure started to check and when it ended, without pause, it repeated the same checkings, and again and again...
> Since it refused to stop by itself, I stopped it manually with C-z.
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> Then I removed the source directory emacs-23.3 and extracted a fresh one from the tarball.
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> Again I entered the source directory and ran ./configure.
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> Again it ran eternally.
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> I repeated this exercise a few times.
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> Whenever I stopped ./configure some tens of minutes after starting it, I noticed that it had created a few new files in the source directory but no Makefile
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> Whenever I allowed ./configure to run several hours before stopping it, I noticed that it had created in the source directory a whole army of new files, most of them with a name starting with conf followed by some random characters. An example: confTgLUip, confTxjcW5, confuo2ySs, confWbNvqm, confWO1cJQ, confWzfwLE, ...
> Besides these conf* files it had also created a Makefile. But when I ran make, it just continued with the checking over and over again.
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> I also noticed that the longer I left ./configure run, the more new processes were being started. After some hours they amounted to hundreds, all but few named /bin/bash ./config.status and make epaths-force.
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> This means that no usable Makefile is created in an acceptable time, as far as I accept to wait, so I can't use make to build emacs.
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> I wonder if everything is all right, so should I wait longer, for instance: several days, to configure to finish.
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> Or, configure is good, but there is something with my machine and OS that makes configure go mad.
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> Or, something is wrong with configure.
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> Best regards
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> Alisa Bezkresta
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> I can't reproduce the problem on the trunk, when I build 'configure'
> with Autoconf 2.68 (the current Autoconf version).  I haven't
> looked into the details, but a superficial check suggests that
> recent versions of Autoconf generate a 'configure' script that
> automatically checks for bogus system clocks and refuses to continue.
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> We should build Emacs 24 with the latest Autoconf anyway, to fix
> some other porting issues; and that should fix this bug as well,
> so I'm marking it done.
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