[Mingw-users] Hang in MSYS while running configure scripts.

[Judson W. <ju...@po...>]

Hello, I am seeing this issue repeatedly when trying to run the
configure script for GTKGlExt in MSYS.  Generally what happens is that one of
the commands just stops.  The location of the hang is different every time; I do not
think it is any specific step in the sequence.  Usually it will not
respond to any input once it hangs.  Trying to kill it with Task Manager or Process
Explorer leads to nothing.

This time I got the following output when I hit ctrl+c (the error
message happened after I hit it, after a hang, and then the hang resumed):

Administrator@Judson /c/gtkgltest

$ env CC='gcc -march=pentium' ./configure --prefix=c:/gtkgltest
--build=i386-pc

-mingw32 --disable-static

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking build system type... i386-pc-mingw32

checking host system type... i386-pc-mingw32

checking for gcc... gcc -march=pentium

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables... .exe

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc -march=pentium accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc -march=pentium option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc -march=pentium... gcc3

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -march=pentium -E

checking for strerror in -lcposix... no

checking for a sed that does not truncate output...       0 [main] sh
2176 sync_

with_child: WaitForMultipleObjects timed out

./configure: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

282711871 [proc] sh 2176 wait_subproc: wait failed. nchildren 2, wait
1000, Win3

2 error 5

282711977 [proc] sh 2176 wait_subproc: nchildren 2, event[1] 0x6D0,
pchildren[0]

  0xF10000, events[0] 0x724, Win32 error 5

282712048 [proc] sh 2176 wait_subproc: pid 228, dwProcessId 228,
hProcess 0x6D0,

  progname 'C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe'

When I look in process explorer, I have 3 copies of sh running.  1 is a
child of another, and there are 2 top level processes.

Here is what process explorer says:

Process	PID	CPU	Private Bytes	Working Set	Description	Company Name	I/O Reads	I/O Writes	I/O Read Bytes	I/O Write Bytes
sh.exe	3832		1,860 K	440 K			104	1	126,841	72
sh.exe	2464		1,852 K	1,804 K			110,976	105	126,650	3,398
  sh.exe	228		256 K	56 K			1	0	12,078	




Sometime later when I went to shut down, the shell was still open (again, I can't kill it with any way I know how) and Process Explorer had it down to 1 sh instance:

Process	PID	CPU	Private Bytes	Working Set	Description	Company Name	I/O Reads	I/O Writes	I/O Read Bytes	I/O Write Bytes
sh.exe	228		256 K	44 K			1	0	12,078	

I would not doubt there is something wrong with my computer, but I have
no idea where to even begin.  Let me know if there is anything I can do
to help debug this problem.

Thanks