awk hanging

[David Cornejo]

Unfortunately I didn't note which ones, but I do remember that the 
ones that failed were  big, slow to compile packages. :-(  This was 
under 7.0, I just moved to 6.2 and have just started to recompile my 
ports, if I catch the other I'll let you know.

dave c

At 02:54 PM 3/21/2007, Olivier Houchard wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:31:27PM -1000, David Cornejo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to build and install some ports on an Avila board -
> > however with certain  packages (i.e. ruby) it gets to the install
> > phase and awk goes into a state where it's constantly running and
> > never comes out (I let it run for four days and then killed it).  I
> > have reproduced this in both stable and current.  Gdb in current
> > fails to attach to awk, and gdb seems to be completely missing in
> > 6.2.  Any suggestions on how to debug this?  Would a gdb from ports work?
> >
> > thanks for any help,
> > dave c
>
>Hi David,
>
>I'm going to investigate.
>Can you tell if it just happens randomly, or if it always happens with some
>ports, but not others ?
>If it always happens with the same ports, can you name one that is faster to
>build than ruby ? ;)
>
>Thanks a lot for reporting !
>
>Olivier