On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > I'm running configure for PCRE 8.00 on Redhat AS2.1 and hanging during > the second occurrence of "checking for alias support in the linker". I > was hoping you could point me towards a means to fix this or some way > to get more information as to why it's hanging here.
Oh gosh, that is somewhere in the magic that is generated by autoconf, about which I know nothing, and I rather suspect that most folks on this list know nothing about it either. Prove me wrong, anybody? Under Gentoo Linux, I get two identical lines: checking for alias support in the linker... no checking for alias support in the linker... no and then it moves on. I've had a quick look at ./configure, and it seems that this check is concerned with compiling the C++ wrapper. First, I suggest you try ./configure --disable-cpp to see if you can compile the main C library without the C++ wrapper. If you really need the C++ wrapper, all I can suggest is that you hack about in ./configure, look for that message, and cut out the section where it appears. Further checking shows that the test originates in ./configure.ac. Is that in the distribution? Perhaps not. You can get it from the svn repository if you want to play with things at that level: svn co svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk pcre Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
