Problems with snapshot 20060309 ?

[Angelo Graziosi <Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it>]

This is not a request of help in building a compiler but it is simply a
report on possible problems with the snapshot 20060309 10:35:06.

Recently I have explored the possibility to build GCC 3.4.6 (relased
20060306).

After downloading gcc-3.4.6.tar.bz2 and unpacked:

   configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.4.6
   make

With the snapshot 20060309 the make process seems to hang at


   ...
   configuring in zlib
   ...
   updating cache ./config.cache
   loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
   checking for objdir... .libs
   checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
   checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes
   checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
   finding the maximum length of command line arguments...

I have waited about 1 hour without that the process continued. Trying
CONTROL-C does not work to interrupt it. I should use task manager and
restart the PC.

After many tries I have reinstalled the Cygwin 1.5.19-4 and now the

   finding the maximum length of command line arguments...

point is passed in a few seconds (1 or 2).

the build does not seem to have problems (successively I have interruped
it with CTRL-C to write this report).


The system is W2K SP4. 

I have all cygwin packages installed and updated without any cygwin
service running.

I have the cyg-drive prefix mounted to '/'.

Obviously:

--------------------
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)
...
--------------------


Cheers, Angelo.


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