On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 6:10 AM Nick Wellnhofer <wellnho...@aevum.de> wrote: > > On 22/03/2021 05:21, Jeffrey Walton via xml wrote: > > I'm working on my old PowerMac G5, powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0. I'm > > trying to build an updated OpenSSH. libxml2 2.9.10 is a distant > > dependency. > > First of all, it's great to hear that libxml2 compiled at all and that most of > the tests seem to pass.
Yeah, a well written library or program does not have troubles. Libxml2 is one of those libraries. In fact, I believe libxml2 has no troubles on Fedora 1 and Ubuntu 4. I keep them in my test environment for regression testing a few projects. I don't recall a problem with libxml2 on them. > > libxml2's make check is hanging at: > > > > ... > > Testing nanoftp : 14 of 22 functions ... > > Testing nanohttp : 13 of 17 functions ... > > Testing parser : 61 of 70 functions ... > > <hang here> > > > > Does anyone have an idea what may be going sideways? > > That's the 'testapi' test which causes the same problem on Windows. The test > should complete eventually. It's just incredibly slow. One possible > explanation is that somewhere an array is reallocated every time an element is > appended. Some Linux allocators can handle repeated reallocations in linear > time, but in general, you have to expect quadratic behavior. I just haven't > found the time to investigate the issue. Thanks Nick. 'ps -A' shows it is making progress. Maybe you can add some sort of progress indicator to avoid this [useless] noise in the future :) Jeff _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
