John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Pfau wrote: > > I just snagged a copy to try to build under Simh. It wouldn't build > > with MMS. I tried again using MMK but it got hung compiling > > Ext/Digest/Sha/Sha.c. It grew to consume all available working set and > > then went totally CPU bound - no IO, no faults, nothing, just compute. > > Stayed that way for about an hour before I killed it. I just started > > another build after removing Digest::Sha from the list of builtins. > > That sounds like a known bug in the VAX DECC optimizer, PYTHON on VAX > has a similar problem. If we can find the offending routine, it may be > possible to put a VAX specific DECC pragma around it to disable > optimization for that routine to fix it.
For the time being, a workaround would be to break out of the build, compile SHA.C by hand with /NOOPTIMIZE, and restart the build. I remember doing exactly that at some time to get perl to build. cu, Martin -- O Lord, won't you buy me | Martin Vorlaender | OpenVMS rules! an HP OS | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] its name starts with "Open" | http://www.pdv-systeme.de/users/martinv/ and ends in "VMS" ... | home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
