Compiling Software with Watcom compiler stalling system

Lately, when compiling the Qnx4 systems appears to hang up for upto 30s
when compiling and linking software with watcom make file . After
starting make the following appears
make
cc -g2 -w4 -4 -c ProgName.c
/usr/watcom/10.6/bin/wcc386 -zq -d2 -w4 -ms -4r
-i=/usr/watcom/10.6/usr/include -i=/usr/include ProgName.c

At this stage the system appears to hang. I cannot login into the system
or run any processes such as sin to see what is happening. Processes
that are already running appear to continue running.

Anyone any ideas as to what is happening

When there are more than 1 files to compile this can happen on a number
of occasions. This does not happen every time.

Padraig Furlong

Does this still affect the rest of the system if you run make at a lower
priority?

on -p5 make

You said “Lately”. What changed when this started happening?


“Padraig Furlong” <Padraig.Furlong@rte.ie> wrote in message
news:3CE27F61.2040002@rte.ie

Lately, when compiling the Qnx4 systems appears to hang up for upto 30s
when compiling and linking software with watcom make file . After
starting make the following appears
make
cc -g2 -w4 -4 -c ProgName.c
/usr/watcom/10.6/bin/wcc386 -zq -d2 -w4 -ms -4r
-i=/usr/watcom/10.6/usr/include -i=/usr/include ProgName.c

At this stage the system appears to hang. I cannot login into the system
or run any processes such as sin to see what is happening. Processes
that are already running appear to continue running.

Anyone any ideas as to what is happening

When there are more than 1 files to compile this can happen on a number
of occasions. This does not happen every time.

Padraig Furlong

“Padraig Furlong” <Padraig.Furlong@rte.ie> wrote in message
news:3CE27F61.2040002@rte.ie

Lately, when compiling the Qnx4 systems appears to hang up for upto 30s
when compiling and linking software with watcom make file . After
starting make the following appears
make
cc -g2 -w4 -4 -c ProgName.c
/usr/watcom/10.6/bin/wcc386 -zq -d2 -w4 -ms -4r
-i=/usr/watcom/10.6/usr/include -i=/usr/include ProgName.c

At this stage the system appears to hang. I cannot login into the system
or run any processes such as sin to see what is happening. Processes
that are already running appear to continue running.

Anyone any ideas as to what is happening

Yeah, that a very nasty problem. Everytime cc startup is check
if the proper license are there. That implies some black magic
with nameloc and proc.

This can happen if netmap are not the same on every machine,
licenses are not identical on every machine, to many nameloc.
Machines with nameloc going doing or becoming somehow
unreachable.

When there are more than 1 files to compile this can happen on a number
of occasions. This does not happen every time.

Padraig Furlong

Is there any chance that you are running bootpd ?

I had a similar problem. A server on my network was sending out bootp
requests. My system would hang when inetd started bootpd.

—Thom

Padraig Furlong wrote:

Lately, when compiling the Qnx4 systems appears to hang up for upto
30s when compiling and linking software with watcom make file . After
starting make the following appears
make
cc -g2 -w4 -4 -c ProgName.c
/usr/watcom/10.6/bin/wcc386 -zq -d2 -w4 -ms -4r
-i=/usr/watcom/10.6/usr/include -i=/usr/include ProgName.c

At this stage the system appears to hang. I cannot login into the
system or run any processes such as sin to see what is happening.
Processes that are already running appear to continue running.

Anyone any ideas as to what is happening

When there are more than 1 files to compile this can happen on a
number of occasions. This does not happen every time.

Padraig Furlong

Thanks Thom,
I am not running bootpd.

Padraig

Thom Skrtich wrote:

Is there any chance that you are running bootpd ?

I had a similar problem. A server on my network was sending out bootp
requests. My system would hang when inetd started bootpd.

—Thom

Padraig Furlong wrote:

Lately, when compiling the Qnx4 systems appears to hang up for upto
30s when compiling and linking software with watcom make file . After
starting make the following appears
make
cc -g2 -w4 -4 -c ProgName.c
/usr/watcom/10.6/bin/wcc386 -zq -d2 -w4 -ms -4r
-i=/usr/watcom/10.6/usr/include -i=/usr/include ProgName.c

At this stage the system appears to hang. I cannot login into the
system or run any processes such as sin to see what is happening.
Processes that are already running appear to continue running.

Anyone any ideas as to what is happening

When there are more than 1 files to compile this can happen on a
number of occasions. This does not happen every time.

Padraig Furlong