yes, sure. I just modified Configure to get a feeling for the issue. Once I noticed that my mods just helped me over the first steps and that there was a real problem somewhere, I immediately stopped and turned to the perl monks :)
Now I know a little bit more about the case. I started the Configure script again and watched the system in a parallel session. Here's where it hangs
...
+ cd UU
+ . ./optdef.sh
+ usedevel=define
+ cc=/usr/bin/gcc -maix64
+ prefix=/usr/db/perl/5.24.4.0
+ : Restore computed paths
+ eval awk=$_awk
+ awk=/usr/bin/awk
... (some more variables assigned, some tools used from /opt/freeware/
+bin)
+ eval uname=$_uname
+ uname=/usr/bin/uname
+ eval zip=$_zip
+ zip=zip
+ cat
+ 0< /tmp/sh19793082.25
+ dflt=AIX
+ rp=Operating system name?
+ . ./myread
+ xxxm=AIX
+ echo Operating system name? [AIX]
+ wc -c
+ test 31 -ge 80
+ echo Operating system name? [AIX] \c
+ 1>& 4
Operating system name? [AIX] + ans=!
+ ans=
+ echo
+ 1>& 4
+ expr X : X!
+ 1> /dev/null
+ ans=AIX
+ + echo AIX
+ /usr/bin/sed -e s/[ ][ ]*/_/g
+ ./tr [A-Z] [a-z]
in a parallel session I saw this:
# w
^Cksh: 0403-031 The fork function failed. There is not enough memory a
+vailable.
# # after killing the Configure script with Ctrl-C:
# w
05:25PM up 29 days, 7:56, 2 users, load average: 750.00, 165.8
+6, 56.31
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
root pts/0 02:09PM 0 0 0 w
root pts/1 09:58PM 0 5:09 0 sh
command restarted and in a parallel windows ps -ef executed
# ps -ef
# ...gazillions of processes like these
root 4194424 11207344 0 17:29:04 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 4456634 20711350 0 17:29:43 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 7667866 57804596 0 17:29:28 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 8323322 40304812 0 17:29:04 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 8585322 31655592 0 17:29:37 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 9699528 21430902 0 17:29:07 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 10289334 58195982 1 17:29:43 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 10420444 63245100 0 17:29:31 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 10616884 15731484 0 17:29:36 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 11141252 37945842 0 17:29:08 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
root 11796592 28639298 0 17:29:07 pts/1 0:00 /bin/sh tr -d [a-
+zA-Z/]
...
would this information help? Or can I provide more information or do some more debugging?