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Re: Problem building glibc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- To: Michael Eager <eager at eagerm dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:09:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problem building glibc
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On 05/19/2015 11:46 AM, Michael Eager wrote:
> I'm running into an odd problem building glibc.
>
> I'm building glibc as simply as possible:
> $ cd /local/work/fsf-head/build/glibc
> $ ../../src/glibc/configure --prefix=/local/work/fsf-head/install/
> $ make
>
> The make never finishes. It enters sub-directories string
> and runs make, then exits, runs make in other sub-dirs, then
> re-enters sub-dir string, runs make, and then repeats this
> until killed.
I've seen that before when the system clock is grossly off.
It happens most often when networked filesystems are involved, which would not
seem to be indicated with the "/local" prefix. But I've also seen it in VMs
where something went wrong and the guest reads the RTC as 1970.
r~