Helmut, My GSoC mentor (Vashek) just now helped me work through this.
I turns out that in my newbie confusion I was calling ./configure from ./configure, so it wasn't an endless loop, it was an endless recursion. Thank you very much for your help. - Paul On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> > > > [email protected] > > >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > grass-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >
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