Seems during the ACE configure that's an endless loop that consumes all RAM and swap, making the system frozen for minute. checking for seekdir... yes checking for telldir... yes checking if dlopen takes a char *... no checking "getby" functions take a non-const char *... no checking if new throws std::bad_alloc exception on failure... *** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead Portage 2.1.2.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 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ping!
starting compilation test on 5.5.8 this could take a while. (especially if it breaks)
added ace-5.5.8. I did still get a configure loop chewing all memory sometimes though it did work other times. Hope it works for you and I guess I'll keep looking.
Daniel i'm synching right now and i'll try. but...can't we simply delete that check? who cares....
no way, endless loop i got bored and took a look into the code. it's so stupid and unsane.... bypass by --- configure.ac 2007-02-25 00:02:14.000000000 +0100 +++ configure.ac2 2007-06-23 11:22:34.000000000 +0200 @@ -5119,6 +5119,7 @@ #endif int main(int, char *[]) { +return 1; while (1) { try { char *a = new char[1024*1024]; autoconf needed of course please apply i tested and works checking if new throws std::bad_alloc exception on failure... no checking if new throws xalloc exception on failure... no
@dragonheart: I'd also recommend to remove those tests since they leak memory. Take a close look :-) while (1) { try { char *a = new char[1024*1024]; if (a == 0) { return 1; /* new() does NOT throw exceptions */ } // <<-- hmm, what happened to the pointer to our 1MB allocated space??? } catch (xalloc) { return 0; /* new() does throw exceptions */ } }
yes and it's broken by design...you can't consume all memory to detect it. in a server you can't update because you will block all......
Daniel can you please bypass that check in portage?
Taking over.
There's no need to patch. Just do: export ace_cv_new_throws_bad_alloc_exception="yes" in the ebuild and the test gets skipped. Fixed in CVS.
finally reported upstream
