gpgme-1.4.0 test hang

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I've made attempts to build gpgme-1.4.0 on more than two dozen flavors
of Unix, with very limited success.  On several systems, the build
completes, and the check runs through several tests, then reaches this
point and hangs:

	PASS: t-keylist
	-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE-----
	MIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHA6CAMIACAQAxggELMIIBBwIBADBwMGsxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkRF
	MRMwEQYDVQQHFApE/HNzZWxkb3JmMRYwFAYDVQQKEw1nMTAgQ29kZSBHbWJIMRkw
	FwYDVQQLExBBZWd5cHRlbiBQcm9qZWN0MRQwEgYDVQQDEwt0ZXN0IGNlcnQgMQIB
	ADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASBgJJX+RMsvtHhhW4LRx59p77nQqYdXLafb0zokxd2
	zFFqQ00QT70Ej5x6zc0hpcGMgwHjFeyq9UwLYrx3FH5vCY2u/MzLXaNwL9VsfhJ+
	gjFHgDVtiqT6/6GbpQWhqzU+cDPGCjebo4rpUaHdmlX3wMX/P6o7S3ck7/5r2T5k
	e/XGMIAGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAUBggqhkiG9w0DBwQIxj3oxbE4yEiggAQIHN/FW/9C
	jloECB8nx4cmpAxXAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	-----END ENCRYPTED MESSAGE-----
	PASS: t-encrypt

Running the top utility in another window show that no CPU time is
consumed.  I then ran strace on the "make check" run to log system
calls.  The output log is not very illuminating: near the end, I get

	31268 select(5, [4], [], NULL, {1, 0})  = 0 (Timeout)
	31268 select(5, [4], [], NULL, {1, 0})  = 0 (Timeout)
	31268 select(5, [4], [], NULL, {1, 0})  = 0 (Timeout)
	... many times ...
	31268 select(5, [4], [], NULL, {1, 0} <unfinished ...>
	31293 <... select resumed> )            = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)
	31291 <... recvmsg resumed> 0x7fff77d2ea18, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
	31268 <... select resumed> )            = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted)

The last few lines may correspond to my terminating the run by an
external kill command.

Does anyone else on this list see similar problems?

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