Greetings, [...] >Hi > > about combinatorial I think not only compat2 is involved here > in test suites I have ran [...]
Wow. this is great detective work you have done Pascal. I have tried to go deeper and actually debug the thing. However, while I can get a debug version of apache I am stumped on a few counts: o) mod_perl does not compile with MP_DEBUG=1 (complains about an undefined _MP_debug_level) - and I doubt it is doing THE RIGHT THING anyways, because it adds a truely gcc-ish '-g' flag to the command line... o) mod_perl does not build against 5.007003 bleadperl (I wanted to test whether bleadperl had the same problem) o) the crash erases the call stack so all I can do is staring at mov edi,dword ptr [esi] Not very useful. And for the "Curioser and curioser!" department: I happened to run the test suite with a shell anvironment containing DEBUG=0 and TRACE=0 (ask not why...). Under these circumstances the test suite spins endlessly on conftree.t (rather than crashing). Folklore, perhaps, and hardly an improvement, but I am wondering who is checking those two variables? If I remove them from my environment, I get my old friend "the crash" back. Cheers, alf
