Re: autoconf taking forever?

I always found with new machines and configure scripts is if gethostname
does not resolve then the autoconfig will hang.
I would make sure your /etc/resolve.conf /etc/hosts , hostname domainname
are setup right and resolve from the command line.....man gethostbyname



On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:58:30 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] autoconf taking forever?
>
> bpalmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net> writes:
> > I'm working on making some changes to the top level configure.in and m4
> > has now been running for 17 minutes on a 1.4G tbird.  Am I missing
> > something or is this know to take forever?
>
> Something's broken.  autoconf executes in about 3 seconds on my machine,
> which is doubtless a lot slower than yours.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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