Re: git coreutils 'make check' hangs

[Alan Curry]

Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> 
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> * Pádraig Brady wrote on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:00:20AM CET:
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > for some time now, 'make check' in the git coreutils tree hangs for me:
> [...]
> > I think it may be a gdb issue:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-12/msg00025.htm
> > For the moment we've marked that test as "very expensive"
> > so that it will not be run by default.
> 
> Ah, ok, I didn't see that thread.  Sorry about the noise then.
> 

If yours is caused by the same thing (gdb failing to kill its child process
and exit) could you tell me your uname -a? I'd like to be sure it's not just
an arch-dependent kernel bug before reporting it as a man page bug. Something
still needs to get fixed, even if coreutils no longer cares about it.

-- 
Alan Curry