configure hangs trying to build current HEAD

[Thorkil Naur]

Hello,

I have tried to comment out the check that seems to hang in your case in 
configure.ac like this:

hunk ./configure.ac 1212
-FP_CHECK_TIMER_CREATE
+dnl FP_CHECK_TIMER_CREATE

(configure.ac is a m4 macro program, I believe, and dnl means skip the rest of 
the line.) In the resulting validate run, this check is not carried out. So 
the hanging wil presumably be eliminated.

But whether any ill effects of leaving out this check will surface, I cannot 
tell. You may wish to study the FP_CHECK_TIMER_CREATE macro function in 
aclocal.m4 to, perhaps, set some flags by hand, if needed.

Best regards
Thorkil

On Thursday 01 May 2008 23:55, Norman Ramsey wrote:
> Could someone who knows something about ./configure have a look at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2257
> and suggest how I could work around this bug in order to build
> GHC?  Right now I can't do a thing because ./configure hangs...
> 
> 
> Norman
> 
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