[companion-discuss] Companion CD Build goes into infinite loop when it builds SFWtop

[Mike Sullivan]

Gordon Marler wrote:
> Following the procedure to build the Companion CD, I've noticed that
> the build has been hanging about halfway through, filling up /tmp
> (and thus swap), and generally putting the system in an unusable
> state.

ouch.

> 
> Looking at the build logs, I noted that the log for SFWtop is a
> couple of GB - looking further, it appears that if the system you're
> building the Companion CD on doesn't have a /usr/local directory,
> then the build of SFWtop goes into an infinite loop running "getans",
> looking for /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man/man1, etc - seems like
> this should get fixed, as not all systems will (or should) have
> /usr/local.  The build certainly shouldn't die over this.

that's very strange, and something I've never seen. I don't have
/usr/local on my machines (and can't because it has my own which
is full of things that confuse the build) and they build the ccd
bits fine.

	Mike