Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I first got into cross-compiling the Debian glibc packages when the filesystem used to randomly eat blocks. I think we've cured it of that habit though. I don't think we have... The coreutils test suite might still be triggering them, but I don't remeber exactly. Should get my GNU/Hurd

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:56:42PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Still, there are 19 tests which fail even when threads are disabled. > > > These are the build log and the patch I used to disable threads: > > The only ones I'd take any time exploring are the ndbm tests. I would > > be worrie

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Still, there are 19 tests which fail even when threads are disabled. > > These are the build log and the patch I used to disable threads: > > The only ones I'd take any time exploring are

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Still, there are 19 tests which fail even when threads are disabled. > These are the build log and the patch I used to disable threads: The only ones I'd take any time exploring are the ndbm tests. I would be worried about it produ

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:49:20PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > Update: This does no longer happen with the new perl_5.8.2-1, but now > > there are problems with threads, so I'm considering to ask the perl > > maintainer to disable threads temporarily

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:49:20PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Update: This does no longer happen with the new perl_5.8.2-1, but now > there are problems with threads, so I'm considering to ask the perl > maintainer to disable threads temporarily for GNU/Hurd. After all, > "ldd perl" on the per

Re: FTBFS: perl

2003-11-09 Thread Santiago Vila
> perl.c: In function `perl_construct': > perl.c:257: error: syntax error before '}' token > make[1]: *** [perl.o] Error 1 Update: This does no longer happen with the new perl_5.8.2-1, but now there are problems with threads, so I'm considering to ask the perl maintainer to disable threads tempora

FTBFS: perl

2003-11-02 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. This is what happens when one tries to compile perl_5.8.1-4 currently in unstable: [...] Now you must run 'make'. If you compile perl5 on a different machine or from a different object directory, copy the Policy.sh file from this object directory to the new one before you run Configure -- th