coreutils 5.0 install hang

[Terry Chan]

Short answer: Don't do that.                                                                                                        

Please stop using tmpfs for your /tmp.                                                                                              

Do not enable tmpfs for your compiles either.  Instead use the -pipe option                                                         
in the "lunar optimize" menus.                                                                                                      

256MB is not nearly large enough to compile anything of consequence.  Back when                                                     
some people used tmpfs for compiling, mozilla could chew up 1.5Gig of tmpfs.                                                        

Terry Chan
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Simon Brenner wrote:
> when doing a lin coreutils (or lunar renew - problem seems unrelated to 
> how the installation is started), the configure script hangs at the 
> getcwd tests.. If I leave the installation running for a few minutes and 
> then hit Ctrl-C (or kill the conftest process), I get some error 
> messages about "Could not delete ...: No space left on device" (seems 
> that tmpfs is a little crooked in some places..), and watching df when 
> the installation is still running I could see that all the 256meg quota 
> for /tmp is filled, by a 256meg installwatch log.
> 
> I inspected the tail of the installwatch log, and it seems that the test 
> program has gotten stuck in a loop trying to rmdir(..) folders. The test 
> program creates lots and lots of nested subdirectories named confdir3, 
> to test the behaviour of getcwd, then backs out and rmdirs each 
> subfolder one after one: /usr/src/coreutils/confdir3/confdir3/....., 
> /usr/src/corutils/confdir3, /usr/src/confdir3, /usr/confdir3, /confdir3, 
> and it seems to get stuck on that last folder, trying to delete it over 
> and over...
>