Re: Status of NTPL switch and buildds
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 November 2009, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
>> If there are other serious issues please provide me with a test case.
>> I've been running the experimental eglibc with NPTL enabled for over
>> two months now.
>
> No, I have nothing specific, except maybe this.
>
> I tried rebuilding xmms2 with an SMP kernel just to see if that would work
> now with NPTL. Instead of failing with "wait: No child processes" fairly
> late in the build [1] (which I could reproduce) it now reliably segfaults
> early in the build at:
>
> ./waf configure --nocache --prefix=/usr --with-mandir=/usr/share/man --with-perl-archdir=/usr/lib/perl5
> --with-perl-binary=/usr/bin/perl --with-ruby-archdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/hppa-linux
> --with-ruby-libdir=/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 --without-optionals=python --without-plugins=mac
> make: *** [build-stamp] Segmentation fault
>
> And I now also get a segfault with an UP kernel, but much later:
>
> 23:45:51 runner system command -> /usr/bin/gcc -g -O2 -g -O0 -fPIC -DPIC -Idefault -I.. -Idefault/src/include
> -I../src/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -DUSE_TAGGING
> ../src/plugins/mp4/mp4ff/mp4util.c -c -o default/src/plugins/mp4/mp4ff/mp4util_1.o
> make: *** [build-stamp] Segmentation fault
>
> It used to build without problems with that same UP kernel.
>
> This may be unrelated to NPTL though as there've been various other updates.
This is 9th on my list of things to look at. I can reproduce this on
systems with or without NPTL, and with or without SMP. This has
something to do with python. If this becomes a blocking issue please
email me.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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