Dear Martijn, dear all,
sorry for getting involved only so late, but I was too busy with others "things" (sometimes called "work" ;-)) ...
Anyway, I just downloaded the MonetDB-4.8.0.tar.gz, extracted it, made BUILD directory, cd'ed to it and ran
.../configure --prefix=<MyPrefix> && make && make check
where <MyPrefix> is not "/usr" or "/usr/local", but rather a new directory, and that works fine. Then, I re-tried (from newly extracted sources)
.../configure && make && make check
i.e., using the default prefix "/usr"; make worked fine, but make check immediately killed my desktop ;-) The problem is/was a small tool called "MkillUsers" that come with MonetDB to support Mtest (details on request; they don't matter here...).
I just fixed "src/testing/MkillUsers.in" to be less "stupid", and now
.../configure && make && make check
from the MonetDB-4.8.0.tar.gz works fine for me.
We will eventually provide a new source tarball with a bugfix release; for now, just patch your "src/testing/MkillUsers.in" with the attached patch file, i.e.,
cd MonetDB-4.8.0 patch src/testing/MkillUsers.in < MkillUsers.in.patch
Please try again, and let us know, whether it also works for you, now.
Note: There seems to be some other problem that appears to be related to the "at" command --- I cannot reproduce it my self, and hence don't know, whether my fix above does solve it. I'll try to investigate this further, and find a solution or work-around.
Regards,
Stefan