Fresh stage 3 based gentoo 1.4 install, first action taken was "emerge mplayer". One of the 40 ebuilds needed is alsa-lib (0.9.8). Make has been repeating the following output for at least half an hour now: make[3]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/alsa-lib-0.9.8/work/alsa-lib-0.9.8/src/pcm' cd ../.. && \ CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ CONFIG_FILES=src/pcm/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status config.status: creating src/pcm/Makefile make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/alsa-lib-0.9.8/work/alsa-lib-0.9.8/src/pcm' this output just gets looped endlessly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install gentoo 1.4 from stage 3 2. emerge mplayer 3. wait a few hours This is my first beg report, so I have probably left something out. Don't hesitate to critique this bug report.
Just had a similar problem with audiofile. I am starting to wonder if this is a problem on my end. I am running gentoo over nfs root, if that has any signifigance.
Check your machine's time (both on your Gentoo box and NFS server). If it is too old (i.e. older than the time source archive was created), compilation will enter infinite loop.
see comment #2
