gettext configure step hangs

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

~> sudo port install gettext @0.18.3.1_0+universal
--->  Computing dependencies for gettext
--->  Fetching archive for gettext
--->  Attempting to fetch gettext-0.18.3.1_0+universal.darwin_11.i386-x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/gettext
--->  Attempting to fetch gettext-0.18.3.1_0+universal.darwin_11.i386-x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/gettext
--->  Attempting to fetch gettext-0.18.3.1_0+universal.darwin_11.i386-x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/gettext
--->  Fetching distfiles for gettext
--->  Verifying checksums for gettext
--->  Extracting gettext
--->  Applying patches to gettext
--->  Configuring gettext

The installation hangs there: no printout, nothing. This is on MacOS 10.7.5.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

How long did you wait? The gettext configure phase does take longer than some other ports', because it's running several configure scripts one after another.

Does the log say anything about what it's doing? Or, have you tried installing in verbose mode (sudo port -v install gettext) to get more output?

[luc-j-bourhis (Luc J. Bourhis)]

It hangs at seemingly random places. And it works fine if using a clone of the same macport install on another disk. Please forgive the noise then, it looks like a hardware problem out-of-the-blue.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm, hope you figure out what's causing it! You've probably already verified the disk in Disk Utility, checked the SMART status, checked for bad RAM...