Re: mktime() problem when building print/a2ps

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 08:52:49AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 07:10:46PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Strange problem...
> > 
> > Host and target are both an AMD64 NetBSD 9.99.99 build from sources
> > dated 2022-09-09 at 01:58:58 UTC.  Thepackages are all being built
> > in a chroot sandbox (as created with sysutils/mksandbox).  And my
> > pkgsrc itself is from today 2022-10-13 at 19:29:24 UTC.
> > 
> > All predecessor/dependency packages have been rebuilt from today's
> > source and installed in the sandbox.  When I get to print/a2ps, it
> > starts to run, and fails in configure.  The last thing in the log
> > file is
> > 
> > 	...
> > 	checking limits.h usability... yes
> > 	checking limits.h presence... yes
> > 	checking for limits.h... yes
> > 	checking for working mktime...
> > 
> > and it never progresses beyond this point.  It appears to be in a
> > processor-bound loop making this check, and xosview reports that one
> > cpu (6% of a total of 16threads) is completely busy.  top(1) reports
> > that a process called ``conftest'' is running with 98.97% of one
> > thread.
> > 
> > I don't know what conftest is, but this sure appears broken!
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> This takes much longer than I'd expect it to, but it finishes for me
> in less than a minute.

Thomas: can you show the code?

Paul: can you modify the configure script to add -g to the command line
and then attach gdb to the long running process?

Martin