Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Todd Rinaldo CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] hang running configure on redhat AS2.1
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> I'm running configure for PCRE 8.00 on Redhat AS2.1 and hanging during
> the second occurrence of "checking for alias support in the linker". I
> was hoping you could point me towards a means to fix this or some way
> to get more information as to why it's hanging here.
Oh gosh, that is somewhere in the magic that is generated by autoconf,
about which I know nothing, and I rather suspect that most folks on this
list know nothing about it either. Prove me wrong, anybody?
Under Gentoo Linux, I get two identical lines:
checking for alias support in the linker... no
checking for alias support in the linker... no
and then it moves on. I've had a quick look at ./configure, and it seems
that this check is concerned with compiling the C++ wrapper. First, I
suggest you try ./configure --disable-cpp to see if you can compile the
main C library without the C++ wrapper. If you really need the C++
wrapper, all I can suggest is that you hack about in ./configure, look
for that message, and cut out the section where it appears.
Further checking shows that the test originates in ./configure.ac. Is
that in the distribution? Perhaps not. You can get it from the svn
repository if you want to play with things at that level:
