Re: Bug#635126: status of ruby 1.9.1 wrt porting
Hello Lennart,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:08:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:48:34PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be released in september, and is a candidate for
> > the default ruby version in wheezy. A snapshot is available in
> > experimental. Now is an ideal time to work on porting issues and get the
> > fixes integrated upstream. Ruby has a fairly large test suite, which
> > makes finding problems easy, but exercises the threading library in
> > interesting ways.
> >
> > Most of the issues are reproducible by re-building the Debian package.
> > Use make && make test to get a shorter build.
> >
> > Here is the current complete list of issues I'm aware of. My time will
> > be very limited in the coming weeks, but I will try my best to provide
> > help.
> >
> > [armel,sparc] FTBFS due to miscompilation with -ftree-sra (inc. in -O3).
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/635126.
> > Currently worked-around by using -fno-tree-sra.
> > Other packages might be affected.
> > -> FIXED from ruby1.9.1's POV, but you really want to look at this
> > for other packages.
> >
> > [armel] I've just seen that now that this one is fixed, the test suite
> > segfaults.
> > See
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.9.1&arch=armel&ver=1.9.3~preview1%2Bsvn33077-1&stamp=1314634969
> > search for 'TestFiber#test_many_fibers'.
> > 'make test-all' to reproduce. Failures during test-all are currently not
> > fatal. The remaining ones needs more investigation, but I don't think
> > that they are arch-specific. I'd like to make test-all failures fatal at
> > some point.
> Building on armhf seemed to go fine, and running some of the examples
> looked good too.
Lennart, could you try to rebuild on armhf, we are trying to bootstrap armhf in
official main and contrib Debian archive, but build seems to hang:
See https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby1.9.1&arch=armhf&ver=1.9.3.0-1&stamp=1322758500
Now, trying to build with -fno-tree-sra.
Cheers
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