Bug#489856: glibc: FTBFS on hppa

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Carlos O'Donell a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Miguel Gea Milvaques
> <miguelgea@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: glibc
>> Version: 2.7-12
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: no longer builds from source
>>
>>
>> It fails to build in hppa. See buildd logs [1].
>>
>> [1]
>> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=glibc;ver=2.7-12;arch=hppa;stamp=1213186288
> 
> The tst-regex test can hang for any number of reasons. The workaround
> is to timeout the test.
> 
> Workaround is already upstream here:
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6653
> 

I don't really like this workaround, this just means that every program
that use a regex and an UTF-8 locale will hang...

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