The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2095
Logged by: Nickolas Golubev
Email address: ngolubev@nps.navy.mil
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.0
Operating system: Linux 2.4.29 - Slackware
Description: make looping
Details:

I have a problem compiling the source code. "./configure" works fine. Then I
run "make" and it just keeps looping and looping on the "checking for "
section. This is where it starts to loop:

checking for collateindex.pl... /usr/bin/collateindex.pl
checking for sgmlspl... sgmlspl
configure: creating ./config.status
cd . && ./config.status src/Makefile.global
config.status: creating src/Makefile.global
../config.status GNUmakefile
config.status: creating GNUmakefile
cd . && ./config.status --recheck
running /bin/sh ./configure --no-create --no-recursion
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking which template to use... linux

Thank You,
Nicholas Golubev

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"Nickolas Golubev" <ngolubev@nps.navy.mil> writes:
> I have a problem compiling the source code. "./configure" works fine. Then I
> run "make" and it just keeps looping and looping on the "checking for "
> section. This is where it starts to loop:

Check your system clock. This is a common symptom when the system clock
reading is older than the timestamps on the source files. Not too
surprisingly, make gets confused about what's up to date and what not.

regards, tom lane

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