Glibc-2.22 make (infitite loop) error [LFS 7.8 - 6.9]

Question

This error appears when i try to compile glibc package in make pass of Chapter 6.9 - Linux from Scratch 7.8. When make is running, it enters in an infinite loop which repeats the follow:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ../include/limits.h /usr/include/limits.h
gawk -f ../scripts/gen-as-const.awk ../sysdeps/x86_64/locale-defines.sym \
| gcc -S -o /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.hT3 -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline  -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wno-error=undef -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -g -Wstrict-prototypes     -ftls-model=initial-exec      -I../include -I/sources/glibc-2.22/build/string  -I/sources/glibc-2.22/build  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/nptl  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/include -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux  -I../sysdeps/nptl  -I../sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/gnu  -I../sysdeps/unix/inet  -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv  -I../sysdeps/unix/x86_64  -I../sysdeps/unix  -I../sysdeps/posix  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/64  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/fpu  -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu/include -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu  -I../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch  -I../sysdeps/x86_64  -I../sysdeps/x86  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32  -I../sysdeps/wordsize-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754  -I../sysdeps/generic  -I.. -I../libio -I.   -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include /sources/glibc-2.22/build/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=libc -include ../include/libc-symbols.h       -x c - \
    -MD -MP -MF /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.dT -MT '/sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.d /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h'
sed -n 's/^.*@@@name@@@\([^@]*\)@@@value@@@[^0-9Xxa-fA-F-]*\([0-9Xxa-fA-F-][0-9Xxa-fA-F-]*\).*@@@end@@@.*$/#define \1 \2/p' \
    /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.hT3 > /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.hT
rm -f /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.hT3
sed -e 's@ /sources/glibc-2\.22/build/@ $(common-objpfx)@g' -e 's@^/sources/glibc-2\.22/build/@$(common-objpfx)@g' -e 's@  *\.\.\/\([^  \]*\)@ $(..)\1@g' -e 's@^\.\.\/\([^     \]*\)@$(..)\1@g' \
    /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.dT > /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.dT2
rm -f /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.dT
mv -f /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.dT2 /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h.d
mv -f /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.hT /sources/glibc-2.22/build/locale-defines.h

Does someone an idea about how to solve this? Someone told me that is a common error when build system clock isn't set right. However this is not the case.

Answer 1

i don't know the reason for the loop, but you can diagnose it a bit more by running:

make -d |& tee log
less log

this will be very verbose, but buried in there should be lines that say something like xxx is newer than locale-defines.h; must remake locale-defines.h. you can perhaps use that to track down the loop.

there is also the remake program which can provide a bit more user friendly debug output. many distros include that already.

note about broken clock settings: if your clock was broken at one point in time, simply fixing it right now does not mean all make calls after that point will work. you usually need to completely remove the source/build directories and restart the build process from scratch.