Hi debian-devel and debian-hppa, as seen in #486069, since Perl 5.10.0, embedding Perl hangs on hppa in pthread_mutex_lock() inside perl_parse() if PERL_SYS_INIT3() hasn't been called.
The need for PERL_SYS_INIT3() has been documented in perlembed.pod since Perl 5.8.1, so this is not a bug in perl. Quoting Carlos O'Donell in #486069: > The locked state of a lock is 0 on hppa, which means that if you don't > initialize your locks (as documented), they begin in the locked state > e.g. bss initialized to zero. > > You must use PERL_SYS_INIT3() on hppa, I don't know how it worked > without it. There are currently (at least) 26 source packages in unstable that produce binary packages linking against libperl5.10 on amd64 and whose .orig.tar.gz or .diff.gz matches /perl_parse/ but not /PERL_SYS_INIT3/. I think this needs a mass bug filing, proposed usertag: User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: perl-sys-init3 The diagnostic has been proven good by three packages (speedy-cgi-perl, eperl, pike7.6) where the bug was verified by failing builds or the like. The inn and inn2 packages were fixed after my debian-perl announcement in June. I think the severity for these bugs should be 'grave' for the wzdftpd-mod-perl binary package because it's unusable on hppa, and 'important' for the others. The packages have different ways of accessing the embedded perl interpreter, and finding a way to verify the bug in each of them is pretty time consuming. Particularly so because I don't have an hppa machine of my own, and running for instance abiword over a slow network connection is probably going to take quite a while. Is there enough evidence here to file the bugs without actually testing for the lockup? If not, could somebody (from debian-hppa?) please take the lead in testing them? I'm attaching a dd-list of the suspected packages. -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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