<p>Hum, I'm not suite sure about the checkinstall part, but the rest look fine.  What is taking CPU when the hang occurs?  Geany or GDB?  It'd be expected GDB does for like 10s, and then everything gets back to normal.<br>
In any case, could you give a backtrace of when Geany hangs?</p>

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