While building ncurses, (I have ran into this problem before, after installing gawk-3.1.0-3mdk)... The ncurses build executes the following command: 'sh ./base/MKlib_gen.sh "gcc -E" "gawk" <../include/curses.h >lib_gen.c' After such, it simply stalls. When looking at 'ps aux': root 13587 99.9 0.1 2288 1320 tty1 R 06:01 0:14 gawk -f awk113577 ... I saw that it was using Nearly 100% CPU. I installed an older ver of gawk (from the 8.0 tree), and attemped the build again, with no problems. Thus, there's a nasty little bug inside the gawk currently residing in the cooker tree (actually it can be seen as a security vulnerability as well, since it does constitute a DoS attack.)
-- Bryan Paxton Public PGP key: http://www.deadhorse.net/bpaxton.gpg
