[racket-dev] make gets hung up building documentation

From: Geoffrey S. Knauth (geoff at knauth.org)
Date: Sun May 4 16:45:02 EDT 2014

Thanks.  I'm in the middle of build attempt #3.  If it gets stuck, WILCO (I will comply).  It's currently roaring along.  Next winter I think I'll heat my house with raco setup.  --Geoff

On May 4, 2014, at 16:15 , Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> I don't know what's causing that problem, but it looks to me like we
> might get some good information if you do this:
> 
> % racket -l scribblings/guide/guide.scrbl
> 
> and then let it get good and stuck and hit control-c. You should get a
> stack trace and that stack trace might be illuminating...
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
>> Fresh git checkout of racket.  Ran make at 6am.  Flew to Lock Haven for pancake breakfast fly-in.  Flew back.  Went to church.  Came back.  make not done.  Took a nap.  8+ hours since I started, make stuck at the same place:
>> 
>> [...]
>> raco setup: 6 running: <pkgs>/xrepl-doc/xrepl/xrepl.scrbl
>> raco setup: 3 running: <pkgs>/racket-index/scribblings/main/local-redirect.scrbl
>> raco setup: 3 running: <pkgs>/racket-index/scribblings/main/search.scrbl
>> 
>> ActivityMonitor says:
>> 
>> process-name: racket, %CPU: 100.0, cpu-time: 3:19:42.96 (and increasing), threads: 21, idle-wake-ups: 93
>> 
>> Any clues?  I did a ^C, restarted make, it blew through all the stuff it did before, and now is taking a long time building the documentation again, currently again at 100% CPU here:
>> 
>> raco setup: --- building documentation ---
>> raco setup: 7 running: <pkgs>/racket-doc/scribblings/guide/guide.scrbl
>> 
>> Machine is a MBP running OSX 10.9.2.
>> 
>> Geoff



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