Comment #4 on issue 208 by [email protected]: 'make' loops forever during
normal compilation
https://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=208
I posted this (http://vi.stackexchange.com/q/3188/2009), and I think my
problem was similar, perhaps identical to this problem.
After some hours forgetting that I was compiling vim over ssh, I found that
compilation steps were repeated just right after some messages concerning
timestamps of config.h and config.cache.
What caused my problem was wrong timestamps. When I unzipped the archive
that I downloaded from here, the modification dates of those files were
something like 1953 or 2092, neither makes sense. The thing is, configure
files had different timestamps, and some of them had far too recent--I
mean, like near 22-century--timestamp.
This rendered Makefile confused that, I am not sure, it repeated
configuration step all over again.
How did I compiled my Vim? I had two machines available. Both of them had
identical version of Vim sourcecode, and the problem was not reproduced on
the second machine. I checked the timestamps on the second machine, and
they were also somewhat arbitrary, but all consistent, and did not violated
*causality*.
So, on my problematic machine, I just scp-ed all *extracted* source codes
from another. Those codes are identical, except for the timestamp! And it
was compiled without any problem.
So, my suggestion: I am not good at Unix system, so I don't know whether
this is problem of the compressed archive or specific problem to this
source code, but making sure that extracted files have correct timestamps
will resolve this issue.
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