Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

["William G. Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:11 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } (indefinite hang).
>
> So it just stops printing those error messages?

No, it keeps printing them ad infinitum.

>  That's a bit odd.
> Anyway, it'd probably time out after 15 minutes or so.

After an hour and a half (getting the kids to school) it was still  
hanging.
> This has absolutely nothing to do with files or the web or bluetooth.

My point was only that I turned off all the remaining optional network  
services that were on.  The only thing that is consistent is that all  
the computers that suffer this problem are behind a wireless router.


> } Is there a way to avoid the test entirely?
>
> Unfortunately not without changing the configure script.  The easiest
> thing might be to temporarily rename /usr/bin/ypcat, and then rename  
> it
> back after configuration has finished.

For purposes of maintaining the Fink package, I can't touch anything  
outside of its realm.

      perl -pi -e "s|ypcat|false|g" configure

in the packaging script masks the problem, and since this is only for  
OS X machines, is probably the easiest fix for this purpose unless you  
or someone sees a problem with this. I am assuming it is harmless.

The main thing is the user should be able to type

    fink install zsh

and get it to download and compile without manual intervention.


> This is more along the lines of what I'd have expected (and what the
> writer of that part of zsh's configure script expected) ypcat to do:
> fail immediately if no server could be reached, not keep trying for
> some unknown length of time.

Hopefully this is a peculiarity of my home network setup.

Thanks.

Bill