From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16049 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1998 01:22:28 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Dec 1998 01:22:28 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA07939; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:20:13 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:20:13 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jhopper@mail.erinet.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199812082025.PAA25815@math.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:21:42 -0700 To: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai), hzoli@cs.elte.hu, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu From: jim hopper Subject: Re: zsh-3.0.5 Cc: machten@tenon.com (MachTen), nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) Resent-Message-ID: <"XSyWz3.0.xx1.D1TRs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4728 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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 ------- 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] > >Paul Nevai pali+@osu.edu >Department of Mathematics nevai@math.ohio-state.edu >The Ohio State University http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~nevai/ >231 West Eighteenth Avenue http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~jat/ >Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174 1-614-292-5310 (Office/Answering Device) >The United States of America 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax) At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the participants were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark immediately?" unknown author