[PPL-devel] ppl "remainder bug" checking on mingw targets

[Enea Zaffanella]

Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> 2010/9/15 Enea Zaffanella <zaffanella at cs.unipr.it 
> <mailto:zaffanella at cs.unipr.it>>
> 
>     Never tried on that configuration,
>     but I see no reason why it should take long.
>     What exactly are you observing?
>     Could it be that the time is actually spent doing something else?
> 
> I can see in my task manager that conftest.exe is running, using 50% of 
> my dual core continually.
> 
> After I kill the conftest process, configure continues (thinks it has 
> found the bug) and make fails on some error (deleted the build 
> directory... if you want I can retry and help fix it).
> 
> Ruben
> 

Try commenting out the following line in configure.ac
# AC_CXX_HAS_REMAINDER_BUG
and see if the time spent drops down.

Note: this is NOT a solution. It is just a test to see if that check is 
the real cause of what you are observing.

Enea.