When lost of checks come to this one it stops and take forever: checking for working re_compile_pattern... For it's similar to this bug I'm also affected by: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487782 More output of the tar ebuild here: >>> Emerging (1 of 8) app-arch/tar-1.27 * tar-1.27.tar.bz2 SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking tar-1.27.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.27/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.27/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.27/work/tar-1.27 ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.27/work/tar-1.27 ... * econf: updating tar-1.27/build-aux/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating tar-1.27/build-aux/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-backup-scripts --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --enable-nls --with-xattrs configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/xattr/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking for bison... bison -y checking how to run the C preprocessor... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for Minix Amsterdam compiler... no checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for ANSI C header files... yes . lots of additional lines I cut here and insert the last few instead, cause attaching lines limitation :-( . hecking whether mbsrtowcs works... guessing yes checking for mempcpy... (cached) yes checking for memrchr... yes checking whether mkdir handles trailing slash... yes checking whether mkdir handles trailing dot... yes checking for mkdtemp... yes checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes... yes checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... yes checking for working mktime... yes checking whether YESEXPR works... yes checking for obstacks... yes checking whether open recognizes a trailing slash... yes checking for opendir... yes checking for struct tm.tm_zone... yes checking for getppriv... no checking whether program_invocation_name is declared... (cached) yes checking whether program_invocation_short_name is declared... (cached) yes checking for sys/acl.h... (cached) yes checking for library containing acl_get_file... (cached) -lacl checking for acl_get_file... yes checking for acl_get_fd... yes checking for acl_set_file... yes checking for acl_set_fd... yes checking for acl_free... yes checking for acl_from_mode... yes checking for acl_from_text... yes checking for acl_delete_def_file... yes checking for acl_extended_file... yes checking for acl_delete_fd_np... no checking for acl_delete_file_np... no checking for acl_copy_ext_native... no checking for acl_create_entry_np... no checking for acl_to_short_text... no checking for acl_free_text... no checking for working acl_get_file... yes checking acl/libacl.h usability... yes checking acl/libacl.h presence... yes checking for acl/libacl.h... yes checking for acl_entries... yes checking for ACL_FIRST_ENTRY... yes checking for ACL_TYPE_EXTENDED... no checking for raise... yes checking for rawmemchr... yes checking for readdir... yes checking whether readlink signature is correct... yes checking whether readlink handles trailing slash correctly... yes checking for working re_compile_pattern...
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I'm also affected by this. It doesn't hog a CPU or waits for IO (according to htop), it just doesn't seem to do anything.
if you unpack findutils and run `./configure` manually, does it hang ?
Hi SpanKY. Confusingly, I guess your post should be placed in the findutils bug report, right. (No. 487782) So I unpacked findutils and run /.configure manually, but it halt at the same step. In this way I tried it out now, also without success. How to go on?
In the meantime I found a very simple workaround for me. Compiling the package in a native tty console does the trick ;-) Before, when it fails, I tried to compile it in a X-terminal (konsole) within my KDE desktop environment, as I do it usually. I hope this helps to improve the ebuild for future versions to sort this out. Best, Andy.
Just throwing in another confirmation.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 487700 ***