Richard E. Miles wrote:
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Gary K Olson wrote:
>
>   
>> I had the same exact behavior on both by G4 and my G5 iMac, only I let
>> it run much longer as my wife and son were both using the computer
>> under their multiple user accounts.  When I realized that the program
>> was just looping on checking (I have never seen a program loop during
>> checking before), I did a control C on both machines.  I then
>> selfupdated and installed the program again.  The program built
>> successfully on both machines in just a few minutes.  As both Richard
>> and I experienced the same behavior, there must be something about
>> that program that can cause a problem or we discovered a bug in OSX.
>> I suggest that Richard try running the program again and watch the
>> checking.  If it is going to run, the checking will finish quickly.
>>
>> Oh I was using following kit:
>> Package manager version: 0.28.1
>> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Wed Apr 23 12:21:07 2008, 10.5,
>> powerpc
>> powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
>> OSX 10.5.2
>> XTools3.0
>>
>> Gary K Olson
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I have successfully built this program now. So you observations are  
> correct. I don't like software that is prone to build one time but has  
> failed previously. Thank you for telling me about your experience with  
> this problem.
>
> Richard E. Miles
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>   
It's not anything inherent in the Fink build procedure that is producing 
this behavior, so blame the upstream developers.

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