[MacPorts] #18553: 'sudo port install gimp' hangs indefinitely

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#18553: 'sudo port install gimp' hangs indefinitely
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 Reporter:  kevin.h.kahl@…          |       Owner:  devans@…           
     Type:  defect                  |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  Normal                  |   Milestone:  Port Bugs          
Component:  ports                   |     Version:  1.7.0              
 Keywords:                          |        Port:  gimp               
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Comment(by kevin.h.kahl@…):

 Thank you, yes, I did consider that, and I confess that I have no way of
 being certain. I do know that the -v switch produces no output of any kind
 while the -d switch produces so much (of what looks to be looping,
 repetitive output) as to be effectively unusable as a way to measure
 progress. Lacking any usable visual indication of progress, I am only able
 to use other tools and empirical observation:

  * Tclsh was allowed to consume '''68 minutes''' (!) worth of CPU time
 before I finally gave up. That's a lot of processing resource consumption
 on a multi-core 2+GHz CPU. I don't expect an installation task to be
 particularly compute-intensive.
  * I don't have any indication of heavy disk or network activity.
  * I don't have any idea of what the expected run time is, or even what
 the command is trying to do. The last ticket mentioned "just having to
 wait a few minutes".  This gives me an impression of minutes, not hours.

 Based on the above, for all intents and purposes, this looks like a hang.
 That's my best guess. Perhaps if someone could tell me what the expected
 typical run time for a gimp installation might be, or if the tool could
 output some progress indications, I might have a better sense of whether
 this really is hung...

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18553#comment:2>
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