Re: zsh-3.0.5

[jim hopper <jhopper@syspac.com>]

Paul,

configure is not a static thing the same on every system it varies from
package to package.  look at it and find the area thats doing the test that
kills mac.  usually config has created an executable that has insufficient
stack space when this happens. you can change the script to change the
stack size to something larger before it runs i belive.  or you can use the
gcc command line arguments in the compile (the one commanded by config
script) to set the stack at compile time.  in rare cases the actuall gcc
cc1 has to small a stack to compile twhat config tells it to.  in this case
up the stack size on cc1.

just a guess.

jim
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At 1:25 PM -0700 12/8/98, Paul Nevai wrote:
>Hi Guys [\'es Zoli]:
>
>Setup: Power Mac G3 [512Mb RAM] with System 8.1 [HFS+] with MachTen 4.1.1
>
>Alas, "Configure" kills my MachTen at line
> checking if tgetent accepts NULL...
>After this my Mac freezes. I did it twice.
>
>This is very unusual since I've compiled a lots of GNU stuff on my MachTen
>and [GNU's] Configure has never been a problem.
>
>Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions?
>
>BTW, zsh-3.0.5 compiled perfectly on my NeXT OS 3.2 and our SunOS 5.6.
>
>Best regards [\'es \"udv], Paul [Pali]
>
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airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
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