Ian Beckwith wrote: > I received a report that the gnulib "checking whether strcasestr works > in linear time" configure test on MacOS hangs for "3 to 4 hours" > before completing. Presumably this means the alarm() call in the test > doesn't work.
Presumably, yes... > The version of gnuit with the problem is at: > > http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/gnuit-4.9.4-test5.tar.gz On which MacOS X version was this? It configures fine and quickly for me on MacOS X 10.3.9 and 10.5.2. > and config.log from the system with the problem is at: > > http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/config.log This file is not downloadable: $ LC_ALL=C wget http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/config.log --2008-06-09 00:40:57-- http://erislabs.net/ianb/tmp/config.log Resolving erislabs.net... 195.10.223.194 Connecting to erislabs.net|195.10.223.194|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2008-06-09 00:40:57 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Can you make it downloadable, please? Or gzip it and attach it to your mail; that's simpler. Bruno