On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Kevin Lahey wrote:

> After successfully building ld, it appears to continuously try to
> configure gcc4;  this is an improvement over previous builds with older
> source, in which I got infinite recursion in a check of include files.
>
> I've attached what appears to me to be the significant parts of the log
> file;  if that's not enough, I've got another 55,000 lines of this
> repeating again and again.  :-)
>
> I'd sure appreciate any debugging suggestions.

   I just recently had the same thing happen to me on an old AlphaServer 
1000A.  I thought the machine was just being slow, but after it sat 
building tools/gcc, I took a look at the log file and found it running the 
gcc configure over and over.  After updating my sources and starting the 
build from scratch, it still did the same thing.

   Poking around in the various Makefiles, I found an entry that had the 
config.status (I think) as a dependancy along with a file (or files) 
specified as a make macro.  I then figured out that I had run one of my 
cvs updates after I had run the standalone raid configuration utility 
which had changed the clock.  Booting into NetBSD after that had changed 
the year to 2026, so all the new files from the cvs update (which I think 
included a gcc4 update) had files 20 years in the future.  One of those
file was presumably part of the make dependancy, so it always thought 
config.status was out of date.  After doing a touch on all the files in my 
source tree that were in the future, my build worked much better.

   I don't know if this might be your problem, but it would be one thing to
check.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA