On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:56:19AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > After talking it over with stephen and arranging perl 5.10 to be built on > real metal vs aranym, we are pleased to report that perl passes its test > suite with the exception of one test, a threading stress test which launchs > multiple threads, and then tries to make sure that they close in order. > > This test is broken on both Perl 5.8, and 5.10, although it was only > included in the later's base package by default. It appears its caused by > the antique version of glibc we use, and the fact that we are using the old > linuxthreads package vs. nptl. A lot of packages are currently broken > because Perl 5.10 isn't available, so I personally think, since its the same > situation with 5.8 that we force perl through (by applying a patch to skip > this test, or make it a non-fatal fail). > > What are your opinions on it? On a perhaps related note, we've had a number of perl threads related self-test failures (libthreads-shared-perl comes to mind). If threads are broken, should we instead have a non-threaded perl? (and what will *that* break.) :) Peace, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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