[racket] Build hanging on Debian ARM

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 1 00:55:19 EDT 2014

I don't have a great idea, but can you use gdb to attach to the
spinning "racketcgc" process (that's running "xform.rkt") and get a
stack trace?

My guess is that something goes wrong in communicating with the
subprocess that created by "xform.rkt" to run the C preprocessor, and
we should be able to tell at least that much from a stack trace.

At Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:51:52 -0400, Deren Dohoda wrote:
> I have not had a lot of experience building Racket from source, but I
> downloaded the minimal racket source and followed the instructions on the
> readme. The configure step seems to encounter no problems, but when I run
> make afterwards, it gets to the step of "Compiling xform support... Done
> making xform-collects." Then the build just hangs. xform.rkt is running
> like mad in the background, which seems to be the proximate culprit. At
> first I thought I was just being impatient, it's only a ~500MHz processor,
> but I let it run all weekend and there was no apparent progress.
> 
> Can someone help me troubleshoot this? What information can I provide that
> would be helpful?
> 
> Thanks,
> Deren
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