Paul Schrum wrote > Going by > https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#GRASS_GIS and > focusing on GRASS GIS 7 trunk: > > 1. Last week I did > > svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass7_trunk > > On a directory under my ownership. > > 2. Today in that same directory I ran > svn up > > 3. I ran the large statement which begins with > > CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure \ > > Here is where the problem is. It seems to go into an infinite loop.* > > > Also note that when I run it from /usr/local/src/grass7_trunk -- where I > was running it when I started this thread -- it succeeded. It did not go > into the infinite loop. > > * When the process starts, the first few lines read: > ./configure: 229: ./configure: Cannot fork > ./configure: 300: ./configure: Cannot fork > ./configure: 300: ./configure: Cannot fork > > There is a lot more I could send but have not, including the last lines > before it restarts at the top of the loop. > > Please let me know what more information to five you or what changes I > should make. > > - Paul > > > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <
> hellik@ > > wrote: > >> Paul Schrum wrote >> > I started off trying to build it in a directory under my home directory >> > using the instructions here >> > <https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_ >> Ubuntu#Dependencies>, >> > but I could not get it to build. The only part of those instructions >> that >> > I was not following were the path. So I started using the paths >> indicated >> > in those instructions and then it would build. That is why my copy of >> the >> > source is where it is. >> > >> > Based on yall's comments, I now think it was something other than the >> path >> > where I was storing the source code, but I have no idea what. >> >> please post here your steps and error (?)/warning(?) messages of >> compiling. >> >> >> >> >> ----- >> best regards >> Helmut >> -- >> View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6. >> nabble.com/Gaining-write-privileges-to-usr-local-and-subdirectories- >> tp5321487p5321504.html >> Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-dev mailing list >> > grass-dev@.osgeo >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@.osgeo > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev no configure/compiling guru here on my side, googling e.g. configure + "Cannot fork" may show some issues with too many processes in your computer. as your issue has changed from "Gaining write privileges to usr/local and subdirectories" to some other, maybe changing the subject line of the thread to get more devs involved. ----- best regards Helmut -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Gaining-write-privileges-to-usr-local-and-subdirectories-tp5321487p5321772.html Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev