issue confirmed on Mac OS X 10.4 Intel ( 10.4.11 / Xcode 2.4 )

But it does not hang forever exactly. As you can see below, pdfimport.uno.dylib needs ~40 minute to 
be built. Should need 1 minute max.

ordinateur-de-eric-b-2:~/Desktop/DEV300_m6/filter/unxmacxi.pro/lib ericb$ ls -l *.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb    44804 Apr  8 02:54 libPptImportermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   446332 Apr  8 02:54 libfilterconfig1.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb    61332 Apr  8 02:54 libfiltertracermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   271588 Apr  8 02:55 libflashmxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   311152 Apr  8 02:54 libpdffiltermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb    80900 Apr  8 02:54 libplacewaremxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   220588 Apr  8 02:54 libsvgfiltermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   143224 Apr  8 02:55 libt602filtermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb  1324772 Apr  8 03:38 libtests.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   103936 Apr  8 02:54 libxmlfamxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb    47848 Apr  8 02:55 libxmlfdmxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb   437456 Apr  8 02:57 libxsltdlgmxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb    78460 Apr  8 02:54 libxsltfiltermxi.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 ericb  ericb  1147152 Apr  8 03:37 pdfimport.uno.dylib

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Issue confirmed on Linux PowerPC too

Created attachment 52692 [details]
pdfparse make.mk patch

@ eric: I have made a workaround (not a fix) for the problem, can you test it in
your environment. The patch you will find in attachment before. 
Thank you .

p.s

the real fix, may be come with next milestone.

So, what to do here? Shall we take that patch for now (aka 'm6') and proceed? 

@rt

Sorry, I forgot to answer on the issue: after a try, the patch did not work for me. 

Did other people test it ?

Created attachment 52710 [details]
pdfparse_makefile.patch

This is a workaround ver. 2.0 (not a fix) it must solve this problem, can you
test it in your environment. The patch you will find in attachment before. 
Thank you 

Patch for workaround applied as masterfix to DEV300 m6.
Reducing Priority.

change the target

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In April 2008, akhva wrote:
> This is a workaround ver. 2.0 (not a fix) it must solve this problem, can you
> test it in your environment. The patch you will find in attachment before. 

So, when will we see the real fix?

just tried to reproduce with the pdfimport now residing in sdext - couldn't find
a hang.

anyone still can?

I'll retry on Mac OS X PowerPC, and if ever it works, I'll close the issue. thanks for taking care :)