Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > Hi Pádraig, > > * Pádraig Brady wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:00:20AM CET: > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > for some time now, 'make check' in the git coreutils tree hangs for me: > [...] > > I think it may be a gdb issue: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00025.htm > > For the moment we've marked that test as "very expensive" > > so that it will not be run by default. > > Ah, ok, I didn't see that thread. Sorry about the noise then. >
If yours is caused by the same thing (gdb failing to kill its child process and exit) could you tell me your uname -a? I'd like to be sure it's not just an arch-dependent kernel bug before reporting it as a man page bug. Something still needs to get fixed, even if coreutils no longer cares about it. -- Alan Curry
