Problem on Solaris with gdb 5.1.x

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2 total messages Started by Katz, Amir Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:49

#2737

Author: Katz, Amir
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:49

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When I run configure, it goes into an infinite loop.  I traced the problem
to the following statement in 'configure.in', line 1213 in version 5.1.1:

  if [ "`/usr/bin/which $CCBASE`" = "/usr/ucb/cc" ]; then

This line is executed only for Solaris.  The problem is that on Solaris,
/usr/bin/which is a script that reads the user's .cshrc to get the aliases
and the path.  However, in my personal .cshrc file I have a few 'which'
commands, so the configure scripts loops forever, creating more and more
'which' processes, until the system runs out of processes.

The workaround for now is to comment out all the 'which' statements before
the configure, restore them afterwards.

Anyone has a better idea?

Thanks

Amir Katz
Product Development Manager - USA-API
INCONTROL for Security Management
BMC Software Inc.
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Re: Problem on Solaris with gdb 5.1.x

#2599

Author: Andrew Cagney
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:46

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> When I run configure, it goes into an infinite loop.  I traced the problem
> to the following statement in 'configure.in', line 1213 in version 5.1.1:
> 
>   if [ "`/usr/bin/which $CCBASE`" = "/usr/ucb/cc" ]; then
> 
> This line is executed only for Solaris.  The problem is that on Solaris,
> /usr/bin/which is a script that reads the user's .cshrc to get the aliases
> and the path.  However, in my personal .cshrc file I have a few 'which'
> commands, so the configure scripts loops forever, creating more and more
> 'which' processes, until the system runs out of processes.

I'm wondering why your .cshrc, on its own, doesn't go into infinite 
recursion.
> The workaround for now is to comment out all the 'which' statements before
> the configure, restore them afterwards.
> 
> Anyone has a better idea?

Not really.  Set/unset an environment variable in your .cshrc so you can 
detect the recusion?

Andrew

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