Hello Alan, * Alan Curry wrote on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:11:53AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > * 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.
$ uname -a Linux wolf 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ gdb --version GNU gdb 6.8-debian Please Cc: me on replies, I'm not subscribed to bug-coreutils (Mail-Followup-To: should be set). Thanks, Ralf
