Unable to check for C stack overflow in 4.5.6 and 4.5.7

[Vin Shelton]

Greetings!

On my Linux box here at home (uname -a reports):

Linux zion.rcn.com 2.4.19-24acs #2 SMP Thu Feb 6 21:33:43 EST 2003
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

glibc is glibc-2.2.5-16mdk

I have not been able to configure either coreutils-4.5.6 or 4.5.7,
because the following test fails:

checking for working C stack overflow detection... 

because the test seems to chew up all available memory, until I
interrrupt the configure with ^C.

Here is the tail of config.log:

    #define RETSIGTYPE void
    #define STDC_HEADERS 1
    #define STDC_HEADERS 1
    #define TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME 1
    #define VERSION "4.5.7"
    #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
    #define _GNU_SOURCE 1

    configure: caught signal 2
    configure: exit 1

I ran configure with the following options: --prefix=/usr/local and
--disable-nls.

BTW, I built 4.5.6 on my Solaris boxes at work with no difficulty.

Let me know what other details you need.

Thanks,
  Vin