configure changes (shared libs)?

after many successful builds of 21.2 betas on Irix, I'm suddenly having probs during configure basically, it stalls here: checking how to build dynamic libraries for mips-sgi-irix6.5 checking how to produce PIC code... none checking if C compiler can produce shared libraries... even worse, when I C-c out of it, it leaves behind a seemingly unkillable process (even kill -9 as root!): denmark 7# ps -ef | grep cmplrs | grep -v grep turner 4326 1 0 19:12:46 pts/4 0:00 /usr/bin/../../usr/lib32/cmplrs/ld32 -DEFAULT:abi=n32:isa=mips4:proc=r10k -shar denmark 8# kill -9 4326 denmark 9# ps -ef | grep cmplrs | grep -v grep turner 4326 1 0 19:12:46 pts/4 0:00 /usr/bin/../../usr/lib32/cmplrs/ld32 -DEFAULT:abi=n32:isa=mips4:proc=r10k -shar and although this process doesn't seem to be using CPU, the load shoots to 1 and stays there frustratingly, cvs log on configure shows this as the last change: ---------------------------- revision 1.140 date: 2000/08/04 02:49:54; author: vins; state: Exp; lines: +84 -80 Re-worked NAS fix. zmacs-region-stays documentation update. Martin's patch to save errno when reporting fork errors. ---------------------------- and I know I updated and built since then (not more than a week ago) - so does that mean there's been some change to the compilers or OS on my machine (I'm going to check into that), or are there changes other than to configure that could be responsible? fwiw, my configure line looks like this: ./configure \ --verbose \ --prefix=/u/turner/Tools \ --exec-prefix=/u/turner/Tools/IRIX \ --package-path=/u/turner/Tools/lib/xemacs \ --site-includes=/u/turner/Tools/IRIX/include \ --site-libraries=/u/turner/Tools/IRIX/lib \ --debug=no \ --error-checking=none \ --cflags="-g -O2 -mabi=n32" -- John A. Turner, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Blue Sky Studios, 44 S. Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601 http://www.blueskystudios.com/ (914) 259-6319