Bug 100458 – ghostscript-7 compile hangs system at arch.h check

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Benjamin Hodgetts 2005-07-27 05:17:20 UTC]

When compiling Ghostscript, it gets to checking arch.h during the configure
stage and then stops for a few seconds and then the PC hard-restarts. This has
happened with every version of Ghostscript from now back to over half a year ago
(and therefore all other versions of the software on the machine too).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ghostscript

Actual Results:  
It went through the configure stage, stopped at arch.h then the system resets.

Expected Results:  
Ghostscript should have installed.

Lots of people are having this problem, documented here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-310791-highlight-ghostscript.html
and here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-204408-highlight-ghostscript.html

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Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12.3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12.3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://194.117.143.69/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="/ 7zip X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 apm ati audiofile avi berkdb
bitmap-fonts bmp bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx dts dv dvb dvd
dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds emerge encode esd exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb
fortran gcc gif gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gzip hal ieee1394 imagemagick imlib
ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k lhz libcaca lzw lzw-tiff lzx mad matroska mikmod mng mp3
mpc mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdf pdflib perl
pic png psd psp python qt quicktime radeon rar readline real reiserfs samba sdl
speex spell ssl tar tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts usb userlocales vcd vorbis wmf xanim xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm
xprint xv xvid zip zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 19:24:54 UTC]

I added amd64 team to see what's going on here.

[Comment 2 aries1998 2005-08-25 07:25:26 UTC]

I got the same problem.
Maybe you can emerge a prebuild package for temperary. 
Here is the link
http://gentoo.reboottheuser.com/amd64/

[Comment 3 Benjamin Hodgetts 2005-08-25 07:59:02 UTC]

That doesn't help as I still can't --newuse. I managed to get around it by doing
a --oneshot with a binary and putting it in the packages.provided file. That
really isn't a good thing to do though.

[Comment 4 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-01-14 13:06:02 UTC]

can you try with gs-esp-8 or other ghostscripts please?

I guess this is fixed in newer releases.

[Comment 5 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-02-06 05:13:53 UTC]

should be fixed in 8.15