Chris Tribo wrote:
> 
> Are you running Gnome or KDE? One or both of those has some kind of
> program startup or crash monitor that plays games with things like this...

Yes, that was it, thanks!  I switched from Gnome to the default X
session and the system built perfectly.  Oddly, now that I'm running
the newly-built system I don't see the error even under Gnome.

The thing that was hanging was __sigaction_sigtramp generated by the
test in 'configure' for integer-divide-by-zero.  Any idea why I saw
that error yesterday and not today?  (Black Magic...)

> On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:46 PM, walt wrote:

>> I've discovered that doing a 'build.sh build' fails in two
>> completely different ways, depending on whether I try it from
>> an xterm window or from a regular (pseudo-terminal) console.