Re: git coreutils 'make check' hangs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Alan,

* Alan Curry wrote on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:11:53AM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> > * Pádraig Brady wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:00:20AM CET:
> > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > for some time now, 'make check' in the git coreutils tree hangs for me:
> > [...]
> > > I think it may be a gdb issue:
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00025.htm
> > > For the moment we've marked that test as "very expensive"
> > > so that it will not be run by default.
> > 
> > Ah, ok, I didn't see that thread.  Sorry about the noise then.
> 
> If yours is caused by the same thing (gdb failing to kill its child process
> and exit) could you tell me your uname -a? I'd like to be sure it's not just
> an arch-dependent kernel bug before reporting it as a man page bug. Something
> still needs to get fixed, even if coreutils no longer cares about it.

$ uname -a
Linux wolf 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
$ gdb --version
GNU gdb 6.8-debian

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Thanks,
Ralf