-->"Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: davida> i've struck a problem when attempting to install a package davida> on an old NeXTStep machine. the package in question has a davida> configure file (generated by autoconf-2.53) which ends up davida> looping endlessly.
Akim> Could you try running make check on 2.53b? the problem is fixed, thank you! it is, however, terribly slow. on my slab (25MHz 68040) it's taking about 2 minutes to get to the point of sourcing the modified file. at 7 minutes from start, it reaches that same point again, and it's not until 33 (!) minutes after invoking configure that the first output is displayed ... (checking for a BSD-compatible install). would it be reasonable to display some output during the initial steps indicating that the script is working as expected? thanks, d
