Re: automake configure script hangs on OSF1...

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ed Hartnett wrote on Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:00:26PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> > Please keep the automake list copied -- thanks!

> >   eval sh -x `which autoconf` -o /dev/null conftest.ac
> >
> > would have been better.
> 
> This seems to indicate that autom4te hangs. Output attached.

*snip*
> + eval set $AUTOM4TE --language=autoconf --output=$outfile  $infile 
> + set /home/ed/local/dana/bin/autom4te --language=autoconf --output=/dev/null 
> conftest.ac 
> + : autoconf: running /home/ed/local/dana/bin/autom4te --language=autoconf 
> --output=/dev/null conftest.ac 
> + exec /home/ed/local/dana/bin/autom4te --language=autoconf 
> --output=/dev/null conftest.ac 

> > If it hangs: autom4te is a perl script; you can try adding `--verbose'
> > or running it in the perl debugger, if you know your ways around
> > perl..
> 
> On this machine perl is 5.8.0, which seems reasonably recent. But some
> tools on this machine are very out-of-date, so that may be the
> ultimate source of the problem.

Well, try 
  perl -d /home/ed/local/dana/bin/autom4te --language=autoconf 
--output=/dev/null conftest.ac

and interrupt it to see where it hangs.  `man perldebug' knows how to
use the debugger.

Cheers,
Ralf