Bug 36594

Summary:	make appears to be stuck in infinite loop building alsa-lib-0.9.8
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Pepas <j.pepas>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Pepas 2003-12-27 10:20:55 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Jason Pepas 2003-12-27 11:19:50 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Mamoru KOMACHI (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-28 00:39:55 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-01 07:53:11 UTC

see comment #2